On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 02:17:12AM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > I'm just using alsa for the first time. It seems to be configured and > working ok; xmms works, I have /dev/asound directory with lots of files > in it, and so on. But alsactl does not work: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>alsactl store > alsactl: No soundcards found... > > Strace shows it is trying to open a lot of files in /dev like /dev/snd/* > and /dev/aload*. I don't have any of those device files, what is > supposed to create them?
Try if there is a script called "snddevices" on your system. I compiled alsa from source and on my system the script is in /usr/local/src/alsa-driver-0.5.9d >From INSTALL: 4) Run the './snddevices' script to create new sound devices in /dev directory. Skip this step, if you have a kernel with the DEVFS support. Phil
