[Alsa-user] alsamixer error

[Florin A. <fl...@an...>]

- nForce soundcard (AC97 clone, works with the intel8x0 module)
- Linux Red Hat 7.3 with the latest kernel update (2.4.18-5)
- alsa-driver compiled from tarball
- alsa-lib and alsa-utils packaged into RPMs

My sound applications work fine; i can play audio CDs with Grip and MP3s
with XMMS (OSS plugin).
If i run alsamixer as root, everything's fine. But if i run it as any
other user, i get this error:

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[florin@rivendell florin]$ alsamixer 
ALSA lib control.c:601:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL default

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or
directory
[florin@rivendell florin]$
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If i change permissions to /dev/mixer0 to 666, it does not help, and the
permissions are lost after reboot anyway.

What am i doing wrong?

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/