Hi Rob, > I tried running alsamixer to check the speaker volumes, but I get a > complaint: alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No > such file or directory.
First, if you do chkconfig --list, is alsa running? the other one is service --status-all |more (because iptables always runs the alsa entry off the screen!). If alsa isn't running, chkconfig alsa on and service alsa start will get it going and make sure it starts at boot time. If alsa is running, you might look at /etc/asound.state. you will maybe see that the values for each "piece" of the card are muted/zero (they're somewhere near the base of each entry for my card, which isn't SB). I haven't tried unmuting using this... so maybe save a copy of the current one somewhere... If the values in asound.state aren't at zero, you could try alsactl; one of the options is restore, which should restore the values in asound.state to the running service. Maybe also try rpm -qa |grep alsa-utils - I think that's the package that has the mixer in it. Perhaps it needs to be removed and reinstalled? good luck! -- Trish Fraser, Sunbury, Australia Linux user #283226 counter.li.org andromeda up 19 days and counting kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk
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