I had this problem the other day ...

I had to do:

# chown <userid>/dev/snd/*

(thanks to bob ham on #lad for helping me with that.)

and then envy24control worked for me and I was able to play sounds.

-Eric Rz.

André Kvist Aronsen wrote:
> 
> I have just installed alsa-libs, alsa-driver, alsa-utils and
> envy24control from alsa-tools from source on a Redhat 9 system. But when
> I try to run alsamixer or envy24control, I get this message "function
> snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory". What could
> possibly be wrong?
> I have a Midiman Delta Audiophile 2496 soundcard, and it should work
> with alsa.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Andre Kvist Aronsen
> Frankfurt, Germany
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