Re: /dev/mixer missing

[Raja R Harinath <harinath@cs.umn.edu>]

Hi,

Philipp Bliedung <philipp.bliedung@bliedung.de> writes:
> Thanks, I could create /dev/mixer - but it looks like this:
> 
> laptop:/dev# ls -l mixer*
> crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,   0 Mar 25 22:46 mixer
> crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,  16 Mar 25 22:46 mixer1
> crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,  32 Mar 25 22:46 mixer2
> crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,  48 Mar 25 22:46 mixer3
> 
> laptop:/dev# wmmixer
> wmmixer : Unable to open mixer device '/dev/mixer'.
> wmmixer : Sorry, no supported channels found.
> 
> What can I do? Why doesn't it open??

Couple of checks

  * are you in group 'audio'
  * is sound support compiled in

- Hari
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