Re: [Alsa-user] Echo Mia-MIDI success, but getting error message

[Giuliano P. <po...@sh...>]

On 03-Nov-2005 Lee Revell wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 15:35 -0500, R. D. Davis wrote:
>> After butting my head up against the wall trying to get the hotplug
>> stuff working, so as to be able to use my Echo Mia-MIDI card, I
>> finally discovered that the hotplug package needs to be installed.  A
>> quick "apt-get install hotplug" did the trick.  Just configuring the
>> kernel for hotplug support isn't enough to get hotplug support
>> working.
>> 
>> Perhaps all of this needs to be documented somewhere
> 
> That's a Debian bug, hotplug is a critical package and should have been
> installed as part of the base system.
> 
>> ** WARNING **: alsa_setup_mixer(): Failed to find mixer element: PCM
>> 
> 
> That's an XMMS bug, it assumes there's always a mixer control called
> "PCM".  It should fall back to Master.

Echo cards also don't have "Master". The Mia's and the Indigo's have
a "Line Playback Volume", other cards are different:
http://www.webalice.it/g_pochini/ead/ea-emixer.html



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Giuliano.