Re: [Alsa-user] Inappropriate ioctl for device

[Takashi I. <ti...@su...>]

At Sun, 09 Mar 2003 20:42:22 +0000,
Arthur J. Yarwood <ar...@fu...> wrote:
> 
> I'm using Redhat 7.3, and have just updated to kernel 2.4.18-26.7.x, so 
> I downloaded the latest drivers (alsa-driver-0.9.0rc8c, 
> alsa-lib-0.9.0rc8c, alsa-utils-0.9.0rc8a), and installed them.
> I hvae a SIS7012, so I use the intel8x0 driver. However the new drivers 
> dont seem to work, I keep getting one of these two errors:
> 
> When I try to start/stop the service:
> /usr/sbin/alsactl: get_control:194: Cannot read control '2,0,0,Master 
> Playback Switch,0': Inappropriate ioctl for device
> 
> When I try to run xmms:
> failed: audio.c:147 (alsa_setup_mixer)
> 
> When I try to run alsamixer:
> alsamixer: function snd_mixer_load failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> 
> Any ideas what this could be?
> 
> Before this I was using kernel 2.4.18-24.7.x, and rc7 of the alsa 
> drivers, which worked a treat.

looks like something going wrong with the ac97 codecs.
please show the contents of /proc/asound/card0/ac97* files.


thanks,

Takashi