I recently did an update and a couple days later rebooted after 29 days of uptime. After rebooting, I noticed that sounds was no longer working. I got the old "No volume control elements and/or devices found." from Gnome. Of course I immediately went to check out my /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer.
And the only thing I see is:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2005-11-02 19:36 dsp
So I assume for some reason the emu10k1 module did not load properly for my Sound Blaster Live card. I perform a
> modprode emu10k1
and then check /dev/ again, seeing:
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 4 2005-11-02 20:10 audio
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2005-11-02 19:36 dsp
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 5 2005-11-02 20:10 dspW
I believe I should be seeing something like:
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 4 May 20 2004 audio
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 20 May 20 2004 audio1
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 36 May 20 2004 audio2
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 52 May 20 2004 audio3
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 7 May 20 2004 audioctl
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 May 20 2004 dsp
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 19 May 20 2004 dsp1
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 35 May 20 2004 dsp2
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 51 May 20 2004 dsp3
I have checked out my system in every way I could find in my searching:
> lspci | grep Multimedia
0000:00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 05)
> lsmod | grep snd
snd_emu10k1 118340 0
snd_rawmidi 25440 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_seq_device 8780 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
snd_ac97_codec 82808 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_pcm 93320 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer 24644 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 9924 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_util_mem 4544 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep 9184 1 snd_emu10k1
snd 56324 7 snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
soundcore 9760 3 emu10k1,sound,snd
I am certainly no expert, but everything seems to be in order. I have seen that many ask to make sure the user is in the audio group, my user is.
Does anyone know what I am missing here?
Has anyone else experienced this?
I greatly appreciate any help.
Thanks
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Debian Unstable - emu10k1 /dev/mixer missing
No.geoffb wrote:I assume you already ran alsaconf?
To be honest I have not used or even looked at alsa in quite a few years. I usually just use OSS. Does that makes sense, or am I sounding more ignorant?
Does alsa affect the drivers /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer in some way?
What can you tell me about alsa?
Thanks.
I know pretty much nothing about ALSA. However, I have the same audio card, and running alsaconf got sound working for me (I got that same error message, even).engest54 wrote:No.geoffb wrote:I assume you already ran alsaconf?
To be honest I have not used or even looked at alsa in quite a few years. I usually just use OSS. Does that makes sense, or am I sounding more ignorant?
Does alsa affect the drivers /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer in some way?
What can you tell me about alsa?
Thanks.