Re: Problem with alsactl: No soundcards found

[Justin Guerin <jguerin@cso.atmel.com>]

On Sunday 26 September 2004 10:33, Hanxue Lee wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I keep getting this message when I run alsactl:
>
> alsactl: load_state:1134: No soundcards found..
>
> I have already chosen the correct module: intel-8x0
>
> I manually load the module with:
>
> # modprobe snd-intel8x0
>
> lsmod shows that the necessary modules are loaded. When I run
> "alsamixer", I get alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default:
> No such device
>
> Below is the content of /etc/modutils/alsa:
>
>
>
> alias char-major-116 snd
> alias char-major-14 soundcore
>
> options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1   \
>      snd_device_mode=0660 snd_device_gid=29 snd_device_uid=0
>
> alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
> alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
> alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
> #alias snd-card-0 snd-dummy
> alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
> #alias snd-card-1 snd-serial
> #alias snd-card-2 snd-share
> #alias snd-card-3 snd-virmidi
>
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
> alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1
> alias sound-slot-2 snd-card-2
> alias sound-slot-3 snd-card-3
>
>
> Does anyone have any idea what might be wrong?
>
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
>
> Yours truly,
>
> Lee Hanxue

This all looks OK, but have you tried checking your /dev/ directory to 
verify that the device nodes are actually there?  If not, you'll need to 
create them.

Also, have you run aslaconf?  If so, what happened?

Justin Guerin