alsamixer error?

[Stephen]

apt-get the following:

1. alsa-modules
2. alsa-base
3. alsa-utils

re-ran the script under /etc/init.d/alsa-autoconfig and then I tried to start ./alsa from that directory, and get this error message:

root@xanadu:/etc/init.d# ./alsa start
Starting ALSA sound driver (version 0.9.2): no sound cards defined.

I run sndconfig, and it finds the card, a SB Live! Emu10000

Then the modules for the card, emu10k1.o is not in my module search path.

BUT, if I do the following:

lsmod | grep emu*
root@xanadu:/etc/init.d# lsmod | grep emu*

emu10k1 61064 1
sound 55244 0 [emu10k1]
ac97_codec 11884 0 [emu10k1]
soundcore 3428 7 [emu10k1 sound]
emu10k1-gp 1224 0 (unused)
gameport 1388 0 [emu10k1-gp]


Very odd, looks like that module is loaded for the kernel, right?

thanks

Those are the OSS modules that are loaded you should remove them from /etc/modules. It looks like somehow the configuration file did not get created what version of alsa do you have installed? Here is what my /etc/alsa/modutils/1.0 file looks like.

>$ cat /etc/alsa/modutils/1.0
### DEBCONF MAGIC
# This file was automatically generated by alsa-base's debconf stuff

alias char-major-116 snd
alias char-major-14 soundcore

options snd major=116 cards_limit=4

alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/dsp* snd-pcm-oss

alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1

alias snd-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-slot-0 snd-slot-0

The file /etc/modutils/alsa is a symbolic link to the above file.

>$ ll /etc/modutils/alsa
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           22 2004-03-06 23:41 /etc/modutils/alsa -> /etc/alsa/modutils/1.0

What the modules loaded look like.

>$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
snd_pcm_oss            48580  0
snd_mixer_oss          15936  2 snd_pcm_oss
nvidia               2070376  12
apm                    15268  2
snd_emu10k1            63172  1
snd_rawmidi            19648  1 snd_emu10k1
snd_pcm                83520  2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_emu10k1
snd_timer              20928  1 snd_pcm
snd_seq_device          6596  2 snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
snd_ac97_codec         54724  1 snd_emu10k1
snd_page_alloc          9540  2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_util_mem            3456  1 snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep               7296  1 snd_emu10k1
snd                    46468  10 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_util_mem,snd_hwdep
uhci_hcd               28616  0
ohci_hcd               15936  0
ehci_hcd               21888  0
evdev                   8256  0
via686a                17028  0
i2c_sensor              2496  1 via686a
i2c_isa                 1984  0
i2c_core               18304  3 via686a,i2c_sensor,i2c_isa
nls_iso8859_15          4608  0
sidewinder             10496  0
emu10k1_gp              2496  0
joydev                  9152  0
gameport                3840  2 sidewinder,emu10k1_gp
sound                  75496  0
soundcore               7584  3 snd,sound
parport_pc             25740  1
lp                      8964  0
parport                36864  2 parport_pc,lp
tulip                  38368  0
crc32                   4096  1 tulip

You should check the configuration files to see if they are correct and after making any changes in the files run update-modules for the new information to be entered into the /etc/modules.conf for use on the next boot or loading of the modules.