Trying to use alsa for my sound. I am using soundblaster card and a nice set of speakers. I have to turn the volumn all of the way up just to get normal sound, which really sucks.

I've ran the alsa script under /etc/init.d/alsa-autoconfig and it prepares the modules that I need.

When I run alsamixer I get the following error:

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory



How do I know that I have all of the right alsa stuff installed, when I apt-get install, I get quite a list of things.

thanks