Re: soundcard recognized but not accessible

[Kejia <w.kejia@gmail.com>]

Hi Lubos,

You may try:
$ alsaconf

Maybe, alsa will recognize your sound card and say enjoying it, but the 
sound card still can not work.

Lubos Vrbka wrote:
> hi guys,
>
> recently i installed lenny on a relatively dated machine. it seems to 
> work fine, but i have problems with getting the sound working.
>
> the card is recognized by the kernel (part of the lspci -v follows)
> 00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24 
> [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 01)
>     Subsystem: Cirrus Logic Crystal SoundFusion PCI Audio Accelerator
>     Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 255
>     Memory at f4100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=4K]
>     Memory at f4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=1M]
>     Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
>
> but whenever i want to use the alsamixer, i get
> alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device
>
> i tried googling and saw the card mentioned several times. however, 
> nothing seems to be applicable to my case directly. often, missing 
> modules (cm46xx) are mentioned. in this case, however, the card seems to 
> be compiled directly to the kernel. some people had problems with oss, 
> but i don't think it should be my case (but one never knows).
>
> all modules loaded are listed below:
> Module                  Size  Used by
> ipv6                  242212  12
> ac                      6212  0
> battery                13700  0
> dm_snapshot            17060  0
> dm_mirror              21792  0
> dm_mod                 56004  2 dm_snapshot,dm_mirror
> loop                   16996  0
> container               4960  0
> button                  8528  0
> psmouse                36656  0
> parport_pc             26340  0
> parport                34472  1 parport_pc
> i2c_piix4               8556  0
> serio_raw               6788  0
> i2c_core               22656  1 i2c_piix4
> shpchp                 31220  0
> pci_hotplug            27840  1 shpchp
> pcspkr                  3264  0
> intel_agp              23540  1
> agpgart                31912  1 intel_agp
> rtc                    13148  0
> floppy                 54724  0
> evdev                  11200  1
> ext3                  123272  1
> jbd                    43892  1 ext3
> mbcache                 8480  1 ext3
> ide_cd                 36352  0
> cdrom                  32672  1 ide_cd
> ide_disk               15776  3
> ata_generic             7556  0
> libata                144560  1 ata_generic
> scsi_mod              141516  1 libata
> uhci_hcd               23568  0
> piix                    7556  0 [permanent]
> generic                 4484  0 [permanent]
> 3c59x                  41288  0
> mii                     5344  1 3c59x
> usbcore               127724  2 uhci_hcd
> ide_core              108740  4 ide_cd,ide_disk,piix,generic
> thermal                16092  0
> processor              36840  1 thermal
> fan                     4868  0
>
>
> am i missing something obvious here? the module list doesn't seem to 
> have any module related to sound (apart from pcspkr)...
>
> i'd be really grateful for any help.
>
> best,
> lubos