Hi, I just installed the ALSA driver on my system, which appeared to go perfectly (after a lot of sweat, anyway :) ).
However, when I run "amixer" to unmute the card, according to the INSTALL instructions and the online FAQ, I get: peregrin:/proc/asound# amixer set Master on Can't access mixer 1/0 Failed to open mixer device Clearly I'm missing a step somewhere. Also, possibly of use, here is /etc/modutils/alsa_sound which I created after the install. Running update-modules sticks this text into the /etc/conf.modules file (I checked to make sure): # Modules setup for ALSA Sound driver # Set up by Terry Hancock, 2000-3/26 # based on ALSA install instructions #ISA PnP support options isapnp isapnp_reserve_irq=9,10,11,12,13 #ALSA native device support (Avance Logic ALS120 --> Avance Logic ALS100 driver) alias char-major-116 snd options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 alias snd-card-0 snd-card-als100 options snd-card-als100 snd_index=1 snd_id="ALS120" #OSS/Free setup alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-services-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-services-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-services-0-3 snd-pcm1-oss alias sound-services-0-12 snd-pcm1-oss Also maybe useful: peregrin:/etc/modutils# lsmod Module Size Used by ppp_deflate 38660 0 (autoclean) bsd_comp 3600 0 (autoclean) snd-card-als100 4020 0 snd-mpu401-uart 1472 0 [snd-card-als100] isapnp 22949 0 [snd-card-als100] snd-midi 12836 0 [snd-card-als100 snd-mpu401-uart] snd-seq-device 2896 1 [snd-card-als100] snd-sb16-dsp 15408 0 [snd-card-als100] snd-pcm1 17256 0 [snd-sb16-dsp] snd-mixer 29308 0 [snd-card-als100 snd-sb16-dsp] snd-pcm 8632 0 [snd-card-als100 snd-sb16-dsp snd-pcm1] snd-opl3 1760 0 [snd-card-als100] snd-hwdep 2412 0 [snd-card-als100 snd-opl3] snd-timer 8004 0 [snd-pcm1 snd-opl3] snd 34080 1 [snd-card-als100 snd-mpu401-uart snd-midi sn seq-device snd-sb16-dsp snd-pcm1 snd-mixer snd-pcm snd-opl3 snd-hwdep snd-time unix 9884 47 (autoclean) soundcore 2372 2 [snd] serial 19404 2 parport_pc 6964 1 (autoclean) lp 4956 0 (unused) parport 7060 1 [parport_pc lp] ppp 20460 2 [ppp_deflate bsd_comp] slhc 4232 1 [ppp] ne2k-pci 3840 1 8390 5828 0 [ne2k-pci] rarp 2864 0 (unused) umsdos 24192 0 (unused) ufs 52736 0 (unused) sysv 23672 0 (unused) smbfs 25016 0 (unused) vfat 8816 0 (unused) nfs 28120 0 (unused) lockd 30888 0 [nfs] sunrpc 52132 0 [nfs lockd] autofs 8932 0 (unused) Anyway, there's no man page for amixer, and documentation for the alsautils package seems to be extremely scarce, so I'm hoping somebody knows what's going on, as I'm starting to get stumped. Thanks. -- BTW, it would be nice to CC this to me direct, I know some people on this list feel that it is inappropriate to post questions without taking the list, but it's pretty much like drinking from a firehose. Has anybody considered maybe breaking this list up by sub-topics or something? (e.g. debian-user-install, debian-user-drivers, etc.) I've joined this list about three times and finally given up after less than a week each time, just because it really chokes up my mailbox. (Not that the content is bad, mind you, just copious). -- Terry Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED]