No alsamixer?

[lwil08]

Hey, Iv'e just installed the drivers for my AC'97 card, and the sound still isn't working. I'm geussing it had something to do with alsamixer, so i tried to run it

alsamixer

From konsole, but just get this error

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory

so then I try installing it using

sudo apt-get install alsamixer

but when I do that, all I get is

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package alsamixer

So then I try downloading it from the Alsa site, but i don't know how to install it, can anyone help me with this?

[jankushka]

Re: No alsamixer?

alsamixer is in the alsa-utils package.

[lwil08]

Re: No alsamixer?

Yeah thats what i downloaded, but have no idea how to install it.

[aged hippy]

Re: No alsamixer?

Open Adept Package Manager, type alsa-utils in the search box, click on Request Install, then Preview Changes, then Apply Changes (if nothing is going to get broken).

[lwil08]

Re: No alsamixer?

According to that its already installed,but when i run it, all i get is:

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory

[musta ruhtinas]

Re: No alsamixer?

what do you get when you type

 aplay -l

into konsole?

[lwil08]

Re: No alsamixer?

I get...

aplay: device_list:205: no soundcards found...

[jankushka]

Re: No alsamixer?

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory

snd_ctl_open looks like a lib call to me.
was your sound card detected alright?
might be drivers are not installed as a consequence...

[lwil08]

Re: No alsamixer?

well, i followed this guide and it seemed to install because i typed

sudo modprobe snd-atiixp

(which is what the results of typing

lspci -v

Get me this:

00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 AC'97 Audio
Controller (rev 80)
    Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Realtek ALC 653
    Flags: 66MHz, slow devsel, IRQ 20
    Memory at fdff8000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
    Capabilities: <access denied>

And it is listed here.)

But nothing happened so i just presumed it had installed.

[garry_3peace]

Re: No alsamixer?

Is this happened after upgrading? I also have got this problem. And the cause of this problem is no module installed.

I have upgrade the kernel 2.6.24.20 And the Kmix state "Mixer cannot be found". Later I found out that the modules for kernel 2.6.24.20 haven't installed. The solution is simple. Use Adept or Synaptic to install linux-ubuntu-modules-xx.xx.xx.xxx

xx.xx.xx.xxx is your kernel version. You can find out by typing
uname -r

After restart my computer, the sound modules loaded successfully. Hope this can help