[PlanetCCRMA] alsamixer not finding audio devices

Noah Garrett Wallach logic@enabled.com
Wed Nov 3 07:34:01 2004


On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 07:04:19 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote
> Noah,
>    Hi. What's the output of lsmod? Also, any messages of interest in 
> dmesg?
> 


thanks for your response Mark.

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[root@dhcp-183-1-168-192 log]# /sbin/lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
nls_iso8859-1           3516   0  (autoclean)
udf                    99616   0  (autoclean)
rme96xx                15588   1
i810_audio             28424   1  (autoclean)
ac97_codec             15752   0  (autoclean) [i810_audio]
soundcore               7012   4  (autoclean) [rme96xx i810_audio]
radeon                114596   1
agpgart                58296   3
parport_pc             18852   1  (autoclean)
lp                      9124   0  (autoclean)
parport                38816   1  (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
autofs4                16952   0  (autoclean) (unused)
tg3                    65832   1
ipt_REJECT              4632   1  (autoclean)
ipt_state               1080   1  (autoclean)
ip_conntrack           29736   1  (autoclean) [ipt_state]
iptable_filter          2412   1  (autoclean)
ip_tables              16544   3  [ipt_REJECT ipt_state iptable_filter]
floppy                 57520   0  (autoclean)
sg                     37228   0  (autoclean)
sr_mod                 17784   0  (autoclean)
microcode               6880   0  (autoclean)
ide-scsi               12464   0
ide-cd                 34016   0
cdrom                  32576   0  [sr_mod ide-cd]
keybdev                 2976   0  (unused)
mousedev                5624   1
hid                    22276   0  (unused)
input                   6144   0  [keybdev mousedev hid]
ehci-hcd               20776   0  (unused)
usb-uhci               26956   0  (unused)
usbcore                81056   1  [hid ehci-hcd usb-uhci]
ext3                   89960   2
jbd                    55060   2  [ext3]
ata_piix                5032   3
libata                 37276   0  [ata_piix]
sd_mod                 13712   6
scsi_mod              114344   5  [sg sr_mod ide-scsi ata_piix libata sd_mod]
--- snip ---

--- dmesg ---
keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272
keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272
keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272
keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272
keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272
keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272
keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272
keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272
keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272
keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272
keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272
keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272
keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272
keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272
keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272
keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272
keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272
keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272
keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272
keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272
keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272
keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272
keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272
keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272
keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272
keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272
keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272
keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272
keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272
keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272
--- snip ---



>    cat /proc/asound/cards

and 

--- snip ---
[root@dhcp-183-1-168-192 proc]# cat /proc/asound/cards
cat: /proc/asound/cards: No such file or directory
[root@dhcp-183-1-168-192 proc]#
--- snip ---

cheers,

Noah


> 
> - Mark
> 
> On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 23:30:43 -0800, Noah Garrett Wallach
> <logic@enabled.com> wrote:
> > redhat workstation WS version 3
> > 
> > [root@dhcp-183-1-168-192 noah]# uname -a
> > Linux dhcp-183-1-168-192.home.enabled.com 2.4.21-20.ELcustomsmp #1 SMP Tue Nov
> > 2 13:30:58 PST 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> > 
> > --------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > well I finally got a nice kernel and updated the /etc/modules.conf file.   but
> > the alsamixer is not finding audio devices.  any clue what I have configured
> > wrong?
> > 
> > --- snip ---
> > 
> > [root@dhcp-183-1-168-192 noah]# /sbin/depmod -a
> > [root@dhcp-183-1-168-192 noah]# alsamixer -c1
> > 
> > alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for hw:1: No such device
> > [root@dhcp-183-1-168-192 noah]# alsamixer -c0
> > 
> > alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for hw:0: No such device
> > [root@dhcp-183-1-168-192 noah]# alsamixer
> > 
> > alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device
> > [root@dhcp-183-1-168-192 noah]#
> > 
> > --- snip ---
> > 
> > and here is my /etc/modules.conf file
> > 
> > --- snip ---
> > 
> > [root@dhcp-183-1-168-192 noah]# cat /etc/modules.conf
> > alias eth0 tg3
> > alias scsi_hostadapter ata_piix
> > alias sound-slot-0 i810_audio
> > post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null
> > 2>&1 || :
> > pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1
> > || :
> > alias sound-slot-1 rme96xx
> > post-install sound-slot-1 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null
> > 2>&1 || :
> > pre-remove sound-slot-1 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1
> > || :
> > alias usb-controller usb-uhci
> > alias usb-controller1 ehci-hcd
> > # --- ALSA configuration
> > alias char-major-116 snd
> > alias char-major-14 soundcore
> > alias snd-card-0 i810_audio
> > alias snd-card-1 rme96xx
> > #--- OSS compatibility alias
> > alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-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 sound-slot-1 snd-card-1
> > alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss
> > #alias sound-service-1-1 snd-seq-oss
> > alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss
> > #alias sound-service-1-8 snd-seq-oss
> > alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss
> > #--- Options
> > options snd major=116 cards_limit=2 \
> >   device_mode=0666 device_gid=0 device_uid=0
> > options i810_audio index=0 id=AC97
> > options rme96xx index=1 id=DIGI9636
> > #--- Keep modules from being autocleaned
> > add options -k snd-card-0
> > add options -k snd-card-1
> > #--- ALSA configuration END
> > 
> > --- snip ---
> > 
> > cheers,
> > 
> > Noah
> > 
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