On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 09:30:38 +1300
Joshua Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 22:42, Nick Rout wrote:
> > did you log in again after adding yourself to the audio goup?
>
> I think I was but I logged out and in to double check, still no joy.
>
> > try the id command to check
>
> Confirmed.
>
> >
> > then try the strace command to see if you can figure out what is going
> > on. like
> >
> > strace amixer
> >
> > (produces a lot of output, but generally the stuff near the bottom, just
> > before the failure point, is what you want to see.)
>
> The relevant part seems to be open
>
> ("/dev/snd/controlC0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
> directory)
> open("/dev/aloadC0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
> directory)
> open("/dev/snd/controlC0", O_RDWR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
> directory)
> open("/dev/snd/controlC0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
> directory)
> open("/dev/aloadC0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
> directory)
> open("/dev/snd/controlC0", O_RDWR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
> directory)
> write(2, "amixer: ", 8amixer: ) = 8
> write(2, "Mixer attach default error: No s"..., 53Mixer attach default
> error: No such file or directory) = 53
>
> And none of those files appear to exist, what are they and where do I get
> them?
Not usre where they come from, here is my ls -l /dev/snd:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] nick $ ls -l /dev/snd
total 0
crw------- 1 nick audio 116, 0 Jan 1 1970 controlC0
crw------- 1 nick audio 116, 24 Jan 1 1970 pcmC0D0c
crw------- 1 nick audio 116, 16 Jan 1 1970 pcmC0D0p
crw------- 1 nick audio 116, 1 Jan 1 1970 seq
crw------- 1 nick audio 116, 33 Jan 1 1970 timer
(this is on a gentoo system with alsa sound working, using the drivers
in the 2.6.9 kernel)
what modules are you using? i have (different card obviously)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] nick $ lsmod|grep snd
snd_pcm_oss 53032 0
snd_mixer_oss 19840 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_oss 34432 0
snd_seq_midi_event 7936 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 53776 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_via82xx 27268 2
snd_ac97_codec 71504 1 snd_via82xx
snd_pcm 97288 2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_via82xx
snd_timer 25732 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 9992 2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart 7936 1 snd_via82xx
snd_rawmidi 25124 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 8200 3 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
snd 56804 15
snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
>
> The most frustrating bit was this was working a few weeks (it may even
> have been a week) ago with no problems, then I reinstalled and now it
> decided it doesn't like me :P
>
> --Slosh
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Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
