Package: alsa-base Version: 1.0.17.dfsg-4 Severity: normal
Dear alsa team, I have installed Debian Lenny on a Sony Vaio PCG-SR1K laptop. Everything went fine except the sound. When I run alsamixer I get the error message linux> alsamixer alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device The sound card I have is linux> lspci ... 00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Yamaha Corporation YMF-754 [DS-1E Audio Controller] ... When I run alsaconfig, two cards get detected ymfpci Yamaha Corporation YMF-754 [DS-1E Audio Controller] legacy Probe legacy ISA (non-PnP) chips the first one is selected and I continue. Everything looks fine except for the error message from amixer. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- linux> alsaconfig Unloading ALSA sound driver modules: snd-ymfpci snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm snd-opl3-lib snd-hwdep snd-page-alloc snd-mpu401-uart snd-seq-dummy snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi snd-rawmidi snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-timer snd-seq-device. Building card database... Loading driver... Setting default volumes... amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device Saving the mixer setup used for this in /var/lib/alsa/asound.state. /usr/sbin/alsactl: save_state:1497: No soundcards found... =============================================================================== Now ALSA is ready to use. For adjustment of volumes, use your favorite mixer. Have a lot of fun! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When I select the second card, it doesn't work either. The modules loaded look reasonable to me. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ linux> lsmod | grep snd snd_ymfpci 28224 0 gameport 10700 1 snd_ymfpci firmware_class 6816 1 snd_ymfpci snd_ac97_codec 88484 1 snd_ymfpci ac97_bus 1728 1 snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm_oss 32800 0 snd_mixer_oss 12320 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm 62596 3 snd_ymfpci,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss snd_opl3_lib 9344 1 snd_ymfpci snd_hwdep 6212 1 snd_opl3_lib snd_page_alloc 7816 2 snd_ymfpci,snd_pcm snd_mpu401_uart 6368 1 snd_ymfpci snd_seq_dummy 2660 0 snd_seq_oss 24992 0 snd_seq_midi 5728 0 snd_rawmidi 18496 2 snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event 6432 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi snd_seq 41456 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event snd_timer 17800 4 snd_ymfpci,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_seq snd_seq_device 6380 6 snd_opl3_lib,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq snd 45604 13 snd_ymfpci,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device soundcore 6368 1 snd --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have searched on the internet for solutions and found http://web.archive.org/web/20070809230019/http://thomas.sarlandie.free.fr/LinuxSR1K.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2001/04/msg00214.html http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/alsamixer-function-sndctlopen-failed-for-default-no-such-file-or-directory-157454/ I did not want to get into recompiling the kernel, but I tried to set the PnP O/S Option in the BIOS to off, and I ran snddevices in the alsa-base directory. I also installed pulseaudio and made sure oss-compat is installed, but that didn't help either. I also checked out the web page on www.alsa-project.org http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Module-ymfpci But since snd_ymfpci is loaded ok, I didn't see a reason to recompile anything. Anything else I could try? Laurenz. -- Package-specific info: --- Begin additional package status --- Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-=========================-=========================-================================================================== ii libasound2 1.0.16-2 ALSA library --- End additional package status --- --- Begin /proc/asound/version --- Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.16. --- End /proc/asound/version --- --- Begin /proc/asound/cards --- --- no soundcards --- --- End /proc/asound/cards --- --- Begin /dev/snd/ listing --- total 0 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 1 2009-01-15 21:43 seq crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 33 2009-01-15 21:43 timer --- End /dev/snd/ listing --- -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages alsa-base depends on: ii linux-sound-base 1.0.17.dfsg-4 base package for ALSA and OSS soun ii lsof 4.78.dfsg.1-4 List open files ii module-init-tools 3.4-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo Versions of packages alsa-base recommends: ii alsa-utils 1.0.16-2 ALSA utilities Versions of packages alsa-base suggests: pn alsa-oss <none> (no description available) ii apmd 3.2.2-12 Utilities for Advanced Power Manag ii oss-compat 0.0.4+nmu2 OSS compatibility package Versions of packages libasound2 depends on: ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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