Re: alsa problems

[Patrick Baltz <pbaltz@cs.wisc.edu>]

I believe you may not have created the device files for also.  There is 
some script, named snddevices I believe, that must be run by the root 
user to create the necessary device files.  You should be able to find 
it in the source that you compiled alsa-driver from.

That would be my first suspicion due to the "No such file or directory" 
error message shown below.

Regards,

Pat

Martin Kuball wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having some problems getting alsa to work on my iBook. I have compiled 
> and installed alsa-driver-0.9.0rc7 and the relevant alsa packages from woody. 
> After booting the machine the following modules are loaded:
>
> i2c-keywest             7536   0 (autoclean) (unused)
> snd-powermac           33204   0
> snd-pcm                69024   0 [snd-powermac]
> snd-timer              13040   0 [snd-pcm]
> snd                    32612   0 [snd-powermac snd-pcm snd-timer]
> i2c-core               14568   0 [i2c-keywest snd-powermac]
>
> When I run the mixer I get the following error message:
> $ amixer -D -c 0
> ALSA lib control.c:588:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL 0
> amixer: Mixer attach 0 error: No such file or directory
>
> The version of amixer ist:
> $ amixer -v
> amixer version 0.9.0beta12
>
> Any suggestions?