On Saturday 06 September 2003 21:28, Harlan wrote:
>   I am trying to bring up alsamixer and alsamixergui, both fail with the
> following error:
> star21 root # alsamixer
>
> alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or
>  directory
>
> Here are the permissions for the mixer device:
> star21 root # ls -l /dev/sound/mixer /dev/mixer
> lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root           11 Sep  3 21:31 /dev/mixer ->
> sound/mixer
> crwxrwxrwx    1 root     audio     14,   0 Dec 31  1969 /dev/sound/mixer
>
> Anyone have any ideas or suggestions?

Judging by your /dev files it should work with no problems. However, the error 
is saying (cryptically) that it can't find the default device. Try running 
"alsamixer -c 0" and "alsamixer -c 1" and see if that helps.

Jason

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