alsamixer -> "No mixer elems found" [UNSOLVED]

DeepThoughts · Last edited by DeepThoughts on Tue Sep 28, 2004 11:49 pm; edited 1 time in total

Sound refuses to work and I have no idea why...

I've got a Terratec Aureon 5.1 Sky (Envy24HT) so there is support in the kernel (using kernel 2.6.8). I've got support compiled as a module, which seems to load fine with no problems. As far as I know I've configured every file correct but when I run "alsamixer" I get "No mixer elems found" and when I try to use XMMS I get that the sound device is busy.... I've even tried to run aplay and then I got this message: "ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1155:(snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed: No such file or directory"

Could someone please help me?!?!?!

FishB8 · l33t Joined: 17 Mar 2003 Posts: 820

first check to see if the error from aplay is true, does the character device i-node /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p exist? Is there anything in that directory?

If not, I would question if the module is really loaded.
Check and see what you get from

DeepThoughts · Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 12:47 pm Post subject:

The "files"(?) present in /dev/snd/ are:

DeepThoughts · Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 11:48 pm Post subject: Is there...

...anyone out there?
Who can hear me?
Anyone out there
who can help me?
Is there anyone?

/me stops singing for antention

placeholder · Advocate Joined: 07 Feb 2004 Posts: 2500

What is the name of the module which you use for your sound card? Along with this, try the following.

[code]/etc/init.d/alsasound stop # "Shut down"[acutally unloads modules and saves settings] ALSA if you have this running.
modprobe snd-* # Whatever is the name of the module for your card.
/etc/init.d/alsasound start # Load the modules again.[/quote]

ALSA works fine for me and I have everything compiled into the kernel as far as sound goes. However, I did that because when I had it all as modules they would not all load correctly all the time through the alsasound init script. If this does not work, modprobe every module that starts with snd(It might help to have Zsh here for module tab-completion).

FishB8 · l33t Joined: 17 Mar 2003 Posts: 820

Ok, from your device listing, (which may or may not be correct) you have three sound cards. The first one is a midi card (or only the midi device is supported) and then you have two other cards with both audio and midi.

There's nothing really wrong here, except that the programs your are running default to hw:0,0 as the alsa device that they are going to use. However, hw:0,0 only supports midi. Use those same programs, but set them to use either alsa device hw:1,0 or hw:2.0

If neither of those work, you apparently have several devices on card 1 you can try out as well: hw:1,1 and hw:1,2
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westboy21 · Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 2:43 am Post subject:

How do you do this? Change the hw device to use the 2nd device instead of the first midi device

westboy21 · Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 3:47 pm Post subject:

Nevermind. I found another post detailing how not to include virtual midi in the kernel. Taking that out fixed the issue for me. I'd still be curious on how to setup alsa config files to switch the device order though.