ALSA - Not working with 2.6 kernel

[Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>]

I had a working sound system with a 2.4 kernel using the alsa drivers package.

Now I have upgraded to 2.6, it no longer works.  Because 2.6 has the drivers 
in it I assume thats not necessary.  Indeed lsmod shows that my emu10k1 sound 
card module is loaded

(part listing from lsmod below)

snd_emu10k1            95620  0
snd_rawmidi            25056  1 snd_emu10k1
snd_pcm                99364  1 snd_emu10k1
snd_timer              25412  1 snd_pcm
snd_seq_device          8136  2 snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
snd_ac97_codec         54148  1 snd_emu10k1
snd_page_alloc         11780  2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_util_mem            4480  1 snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep               9504  1 snd_emu10k1
snd                    52516  8 
snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_util_mem,snd_hwdep


However, when running alsamixer (as root - or as me as a member of the audio 
group) I get

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device

Below is a short part of the /dev/snd directory

kanger:/dev/snd# ls -l
total 0
crw-rw----    1 root     audio    116,   0 Feb  7 23:35 controlC0
crw-rw----    1 root     audio    116,  32 Feb  7 23:35 controlC1
crw-rw----    1 root     audio    116,  64 Feb  7 23:35 controlC2
crw-rw----    1 root     audio    116,  96 Feb  7 23:35 controlC3
crw-rw----    1 root     audio    116,   4 Feb  7 23:35 hwC0D0
crw-rw----    1 root     audio    116,   5 Feb  7 23:35 hwC0D1
c

Can anyone help me diagnose whats wrong





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Alan Chandler
alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk