alsa modules loaded but alsamixer won't work

[S. Gongola]

On Sat March 27 2004 07:52 pm, Gavin Henry wrote:
> On Thursday 25 Mar 2004 02:20, S. Gongola wrote:
> > I've loaded ALSA rpms and the alsa modules are loaded.
> > Sound works through oss emulation but when I run alsamixer.
> > alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or
> > directory Has anyone had a similar problem.
>
> This might be due to bad permissions in /dev/snd/*
>
> as root run:
>
> chmod a+rw /dev/snd/*
>
> It should be fine after this.
didn't work
alsamixer gives the same error even as root