On Thu, 2001-10-25 at 09:05, shock wrote:
> i /finally/ got alsa-sound working yesterday.  this morning, as i was
> booting my system, i noticed the following message float by:
> 
> aumix:  error opening mixer
> 
> in my /etc/init.d/rc.local file, i have the following statement, which
> sets my mixer to certain established levels:
> 
> /usr/bin/aumix -L /etc/aumixrc
> 
> /etc/aumixrc contains the following:
> 
> vol:75:75:P
> bass:50:50:P
> treble:50:50:P
> synth:0:0:P
> pcm:74:74:P
> speaker:0:0:P
> line:0:0:R
> mic:0:0:P
> cd:0:0:P
> igain:0:0:P
> dig1:0:0:P
> 
> /dev/mixer exists as a pointer to /dev/mixer0:
> 
> calypso:/home/stephen# ls -al /dev/mixer
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           11 Oct 24 11:44 /dev/mixer ->
> /dev/mixer0
> calypso:/home/stephen# ls -al /dev/mixer0
> crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,   0 Oct 24 11:44 /dev/mixer0
> calypso:/home/stephen#
> 
> to my untrained eye, this appears normal.  anyone have any ideas as to
> what i may be doing wrong?  (incidentally, alsamixer produces the same
> error -- which, under the circumstances, is no big surprise).

I assume you (stephen) are a memeber of the audio group correct?  Are
all your alsa modules loaded before you try and run your init.d script? 
If not, is /etc/modules.conf properly reference the char-major-14
devices for alsa (I'm not quite sure how since I don't run it).

--mike

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