alsa modules loaded but alsamixer won't work

[Bert Haskins]

S. Gongola wrote:

>On Sat March 27 2004 07:52 pm, Gavin Henry wrote:
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>>On Thursday 25 Mar 2004 02:20, S. Gongola wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>This might be due to bad permissions in /dev/snd/*
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>>as root run:
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>>chmod a+rw /dev/snd/*
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>>It should be fine after this.
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>didn't work
>alsamixer gives the same error even as root
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Yes, also diid < above > and have no alsaconf or alsaconfig ,,,
reinstall says that the files are installed but find files can't find 
any of them.
Why?????
I am root.

Alsa is weird or at least poorly documented.
I sware that if I ever get it figured out, I'll do a writeup
that meer mortals can understand.

Thanks,
    Bert

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