Re: [Alsa-user] no sound in Asus A6 laptop (HDA-Intel)

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

At Wed, 07 Sep 2005 14:34:48 +0100,
psalazar wrote:
> 
> > Make sure that you installed on correct directories.
> > AFAIK, FC installs alsa-lib on /lib or /lib64.  Not sure where to
> > install execs and config files (I've never used redhat).
> > 
> 
> I installed the alsa-lib 1.0.10rc1 with prefix "/usr".
> (e.g. /usr/lib/libasound.so.2)
> 
> The FC4 alsa rpms are:
> alsa-lib-1.0.9rf-2.FC4
> alsa-utils-1.0.9rf-2.FC4
> alsa-lib-devel-1.0.9rf-2.FC4
> 
> The FC4 alsa-lib installed between others files this lib:
> /lib/libasound.so.2
> 
> The FC4 alsa's configurations are inside /etc/alsa/.
> 
> Because I can't clean FC4 alsa rpms due other FC4 rpms dependencies, I
> linked the /lib/libasound.so.2 to /usr/lib/libasound.so.2.
> 
> But still I'm getting: 
> alsamixer: function snd_mixer_load failed: Invalid argument
> 
> Any ideas?

It's usually not a problem of the driver but something else of the
system, for example, inproper udev set up or wrong permissons of
device files.


> BTW, when I run with 2.6.12.x kernel, the alsamixer runs fine. I simple
> don't hear any sound...

It's not the kernel problem, I guess.

Try to run strace with alsamixer.


Takashi