Re: amixer no longer working when using 2.6.15
This does look like incompatibility between kernel drivers and ALSA
libs. I strongly suggest you try Experimental ALSA packages. It may also
be that your ALSA libs are newer that the kernel drivers. In that case
you might want to try building latest ALSA modules from source (package
alsa-source).
By the way, did you try running "alsaconf"?
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