Re: [Alsa-user] Error in attempting to use alsa

[Frans K. <ket...@wa...>]

On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 16:34:12 +0000 (GMT)
Andrew Scott <and...@ya...> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am running SuSe 7.0 professional with a 2.2.16
> kernel on an i586 desktop.
> 
> I have loaded the soundcore module:
> lsmod gives:
> soundcore               2564   4  (autoclean) [snd]
> ipv6                   99624  -1  (autoclean)
> vmnet                  14856   4 
> vmppuser                4944   0  (unused)
> parport_pc              7568   0  (unused)
> parport                 7464   0  [vmppuser
> parport_pc]
> vmmon                  16460   1 
> 3c90x                  20240   1  (autoclean)
> memstat                 1476   0  (unused)
> serial                 42484   0  (autoclean)
> usbcore                42760   0  (unused)
> 
> and I have compiled and installed the latest stable
> alsa drivers, libs and utils.
> 
> Now I have the following output. What could be wrong?

Did you run the ./snddevices script in the alsa-driver directory and edit
/etc/modules.conf acoording to the INSTALL file in that directory?

> Thankyou,
> Andrew Scott
> 
> =====================================================
> 
> andrew@nova:~ > aplay -l
> VIA 82C686A: 1 [card1] / #0: VIA 82C686A
>   Directions: playback capture duplex 
>   Playback subdevices: 1
>   Capture subdevices: 1
>   Playback subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>   Capture subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> andrew@nova:~ > alsamixer
> 
> alsamixer: failed to open mixer #0/#0: Invalid
> argument
> andrew@nova:~ > amixer info
> amixer: Mixer 0/0 open error: Invalid argument
> andrew@nova:~ > 

    -Frans