Re: I can get no... sound

[Yannick - Debian/Linux <sevmek@free.fr>]

Lennart Sorensen a écrit :

On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 07:26:14AM +0200, Yannick - Debian/Linux wrote:
  

$ alsamixer

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device

alsaconf found nothing....
    

All I have ever done is:

echo "snd-intel8x0" >> /etc/modules
echo "snd-ioctl32" >> /etc/modules (seems not to be needed on newer 2.6 builds)
  

I don't have the directory /etc/modules
I have /etc/modprobe.d and /etc/modutils

apt-get install alsa-utils
modprobe snd-intel8x0
modprobe snd-ioctl32
adduser mynormaluser audio
  

All this is correct in my system :
#lsmod
snd_ioctl32            17472  0
snd_intel8x0m          20264  0
snd_intel8x0           35988  0
snd_ac97_codec         73220  2 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss            56680  0
snd_mixer_oss          19520  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm               100876  4 snd_ioctl32,snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              24968  1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc         12944  3 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
gameport                5120  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_mpu401_uart         8192  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_rawmidi            26532  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device          9164  1 snd_rawmidi
(...)
snd                    56936  12 snd_ioctl32,snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore              11232  1 snd
(...)

The user is in the audio group and alsa-utils are installed.


My hypothesis : during the install (the debian amd_64 install) sound was recognized from an usb webcam device (so i first have an usb sound driver). I removed it using modconf and installed right modules with the same program. Maybe this usb sound driver mess the whole sound stuff (and maybe related with hotplug ??)

There is still no sound.

I'm lost,
please help me...

Thank you for paying attention to my problem.
Regards

That's it.

Sometimes it seems running /usr/share/alsa-base/snddevices to populate
/dev with alsa devices might be needed once too.

All that other crap really shouldn't be necesary.

Sound worked (once I unmuted and set volume in alsamixer).

Len Sorensen