[NBLUG/talk] Debian--Mixer device not found

[A'fish'ionado]

Alright! Volume control! :-) Xgalaga and Frozen-Bubble still won't play
sound at the same time, but now I'm wondering if that's a problem with the
apps rather than the mixer. At any rate, the terminal beeps are no longer
loud enough to deafen me. :-)

In other news, I GOT THE FREAKING WINMODEM TO WORK UNDER DEBIAN!!! (Same
laptop.) Yes! Yes! YES!!! I win! :-D

William
Very happy right now! :-)

On 12/20/05, Troy Arnold <troy at zenux.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 11:30:55AM -0800, A'fish'ionado wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm fiddling with my laptop (a Dell Inspiron 1000--the same one I demoed
> > Ubuntu on the other week). There's no functioning sound mixer device
> under
> > Debian. The sound card does work; I can pull up a game and the sound for
> it
> > does play, but since there's no mixer device, only one application at a
> time
> > can play sound, and I have no volume control. Help me before I go deaf.
> :-)
> >
> > I could have sworn that the mixer was working fine at one point, so,
> > chalking the problem up to something I did while tinkering, I
> reinstalled
> > Debian. This cleared the cruft out of my home directory :-) but did not
> fix
> > the problem at all. Note to self: This is Linux not Windows--rebooting
> or
> > reinstalling does not fix everything. :-P
> >
> > The mixer device, tantalizingly, works fine under Ubuntu. Both are
> running
> > 2.6 series kernels. I compared the outputs of lsmod, and tried
> modprobing
> > the various modules loaded under Ubuntu, but not Debian. Ubuntu loads a
> > module named snd-mixer-oss that Debian doesn't, but loading the module
> > manually under Debian doesn't seem to help. I also noticed that the file
> > /etc/modules.d/alsa-conf exists under Ubuntu, but not Debian; copying
> the
> > file over to Debian and rebooting didn't fix the problem, either, so I
> > removed it.
>
> Try running 'alsaconf'
>
> Launch 'alsamixer' (in alsa-utils package) from a console and see if you
> get any helpful messages.
>
> make sure /dev/mixer exists and your user is able to write to it.
> Mine looks like so:
> crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 0 2004-03-11 12:15 /dev/mixer0
>
> Where my regular user is a member of the audio group.
>
> -troy
>
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