Hi today I came accross this issue which I hadn't noticed as I am usually using the volume knob on the speakers to adjust the volume. I use a SBLive and have digital Boston Accoustic speakers hooked up to it. Alsa starts up successfully at boot and I get sound in all programs. But when I go to adjust the volume in any of the programs nothing happen. Sounds stays at whatever volume it is set. I tried with xmms, aviplay, mplayer, xine, kaboodle, kscd, etc. So I started to look at the mixers. Am running in 1600x1200 resolution and the only mixer I found first was kmix and that came up going way over the whole width of the screen. But nothing I would change in there would do anything at all. So I read that I should try Alsamixer which wasn't installed. So I installed it and when launched I was presented with 63 entries. The top recognized my soundcard as Soundblaster Live! with Cirrus Logic CS4297A rev 4 chipset. But no matter which slider I was trying to change it would not affect the volume nor bass nor treble. Next I tried Arts control tool and that one too is not showing any activity and changing the slider doesn't do anything. Same with aumix.
So I figured let's try another sound system. Currently I was using the snd-emu10k1 which I guess is the alsa. then I tried the audigy and the emu10k1. After changing to either of those I got no sound at all. No matter what I tried. So finally I chose snd-emu10k1 and now I have sound again, but also can't adjust any volume anywhere. This is what the sound configuration tool put in modules.conf: above snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1 and this is what I get when I do a lsmod: snd-seq-midi 4768 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-emu10k1-synth 5276 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-emux-synth 31644 0 (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1-synth] snd-seq-midi-emul 6780 0 (autoclean) [snd-emux-synth] snd-seq-virmidi 4572 0 (autoclean) [snd-emux-synth] snd-seq-oss 31104 0 (unused) snd-seq-midi-event 5640 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-oss] snd-seq 42736 2 [snd-seq-midi snd-emux-synth snd-seq-midi-emul snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] snd-pcm-oss 43172 1 snd-mixer-oss 14520 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-emu10k1 68080 1 [snd-emu10k1-synth] snd-pcm 76384 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-emu10k1] snd-timer 14408 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] snd-rawmidi 17600 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-virmidi snd-emu10k1] snd-util-mem 3008 0 [snd-emux-synth snd-emu10k1] snd-hwdep 5344 0 [snd-emu10k1] snd-ac97-codec 35560 0 [snd-emu10k1] snd-seq-device 5832 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-emu10k1-synth snd-emux-synth snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi] snd 43396 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-emux-synth snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-util-mem snd-hwdep snd-ac97-codec snd-seq-device] soundcore 6276 0 [snd] and lspci gives me this: 00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 08) Thanks in advance for any information/help/hints Serge
