[Alsa-user] alsamixer

[panos s. <p2...@ho...>]

Trying to run alsamixer I get no graphical interface (by the way should 
I get a graphical interface?)
This is what I get :
alsamixer: failed to open mixer #0/#0: Success

Any guess of what may be wrong?
My modules.conf is this
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# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
options snd-emu10k1 io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1,5 mpu_io=0x330
 
# module options should go here
 
# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
 
# card #1
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1
post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L 
 >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S 
 >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
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When I try

> modprobe snd-emu10k1;modprobe snd-pcm-oss;modprobe 
> snd-mixer-oss;modprobe snd-seq-oss

I get no output so I guess things are ok.

Could anyone give me a hint?

Is there anything apart from alsamixer that I can change the volume 
levels with?