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alsa not working



Hi,

I searched linuxquestions.org and the last year of this list but
could not find anything relevant.

Problem:
alsa sound not working.
alsaconf is not working either. It says no pci cards found, and
scanning for legacy ISA cards is not useful, I don't have those.
So automatic configuration does not work.

Symptoms:
alsamixer says: 
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory

Additional info:
/dev/dsp points to /dev/sound/dsp (which seems to be ok)
I am a member of groups cdrom, audio and video
See attached the output of lspci, lsmod 
and my /etc/modules and /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base

My hardware: 
Asus p4p800 deluxe 
Soundblaster live!

The funny thing is that I can hear sounds just fine by playing a flash 
animation with sound, eg the casini one found on http://www.nasa.gov/home/

So the hardware works.

However I cannot get arts to work.
Also xmms does not work using the alsa output driver

I guess I am still missing some alsa-specific configuration stuff.

Thanks for any ideas,

John
Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
sd_mod                 12076   0 (autoclean) (unused)
ide-cd                 32512   0 (autoclean)
sr_mod                 14616   0 (autoclean) (unused)
cdrom                  29472   0 (autoclean) [ide-cd sr_mod]
floppy                 52668   0 (autoclean)
parport_pc             24072   1 (autoclean)
lp                      7360   0 (autoclean)
parport                28104   1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
nfsd                   75120   8 (autoclean)
lockd                  52432   1 (autoclean) [nfsd]
sunrpc                 74176   1 (autoclean) [nfsd lockd]
ipx                    22116   1 (autoclean)
ipt_TOS                 1048  12 (autoclean)
ipt_MASQUERADE          1624   1 (autoclean)
ipt_LOG                 3544   6 (autoclean)
ipt_REJECT              3864   4 (autoclean)
ipt_pkttype              472   4 (autoclean)
ipt_state                536  16 (autoclean)
ip_nat_irc              2320   0 (unused)
ip_nat_tftp             1680   0 (unused)
ip_nat_ftp              3088   0 (unused)
ip_conntrack_irc        3184   1 [ip_nat_irc]
ip_conntrack_tftp       1808   1
ip_conntrack_ftp        4272   1 [ip_nat_ftp]
ipt_multiport            664   7 (autoclean)
ipt_conntrack           1080  31 (autoclean)
iptable_filter          1740   1 (autoclean)
iptable_mangle          2168   1 (autoclean)
iptable_nat            18374   4 (autoclean) [ipt_MASQUERADE ip_nat_irc ip_nat_tftp ip_nat_ftp]
ip_conntrack           22976   3 (autoclean) [ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_state ip_nat_irc ip_nat_tftp ip_nat_ftp ip_conntrack_irc ip_conntrack_tftp ip_conntrack_ftp ipt_conntrack iptable_nat]
ip_tables              13504  13 [ipt_TOS ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_LOG ipt_REJECT ipt_pkttype ipt_state ipt_multiport ipt_conntrack iptable_filter iptable_mangle iptable_nat]
emu10k1-gp              1416   0 (unused)
gameport                1692   0 [emu10k1-gp]
loop                   10360   0 (autoclean)
lvm-mod                59712   0
dm-mod                 29992   0 (unused)
ide-scsi               10576   0
scsi_mod               97764   3 [sd_mod sr_mod ide-scsi]
mpu401                 21092   0 (unused)
emu10k1                64780   2
sound                  61984   0 [mpu401 emu10k1]
soundcore               4420   7 [emu10k1 sound]
ac97_codec             13784   0 [emu10k1]
autofs4                10228   1
af_packet              15016   1
agpgart                47524   0 (unused)
8139too                16008   2
mii                     2560   0 [8139too]
crc32                   2928   0 [8139too]
hw_random               2876   0 (unused)
printer                 8576   0
usb-uhci               24496   0 (unused)
usbcore                66636   1 [printer usb-uhci]
rtc                     7784   0
ext3                   86216   3 (autoclean)
jbd                    46744   3 (autoclean) [ext3]
ide-detect               288   0 (autoclean) (unused)
piix                    8968   2 (autoclean)
ide-disk               17184   4 (autoclean)
unix                   17324 223 (autoclean)
vesafb                  9960  63 (autoclean)
fbcon-cfb24             4552   0 (autoclean) [vesafb]
fbcon-cfb16             4200   0 (autoclean) [vesafb]
fbcon-cfb8              3592   0 (autoclean) [vesafb]
fbcon-cfb32             3880   0 (autoclean) [vesafb]
ide-core              114940   4 (autoclean) [ide-cd ide-scsi ide-detect piix ide-disk]
# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are
# to be loaded at boot time, one per line.  Comments begin with
# a `#', and everything on the line after them are ignored.
rtc
usb-uhci
printer
serial
hw_random
8139too
agpgart
af_packet
autofs4
ext3
emu10k1
mpu401
ide-scsi
apm
install snd-pcm /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-pcm && /sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss
pcilib: Cannot open /sys/bus/pci/devices
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #4 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB/ER Hub interface to PCI Bridge (rev c2)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) Ultra ATA 100 Storage Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB (ICH5) Serial ATA 150 Storage Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 SE] (rev 01)
0000:02:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80)
0000:02:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 0a)
0000:02:0a.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 0a)
0000:02:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
0000:02:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)

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