Thanks Jim, see below... ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim Little <jlittle [ at ] orderedBits [ dot ] com> Date: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 8:29 am Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] No volume control > > Card is SBLive ans EMU10K1 appears loaded. > > Trying to run alsamixer gives : "function snd_ctl_open failed for > > default: No such device" > > Take a look at your /etc/asound.conf and make sure your "default" > sound card is set up properly. There's no file name asound.conf on the system (yet xmms can play sound files!) > > Also do an lsmod and make sure all your alsa modules have loaded > properly. Here's what shows related to sound: snd_emu10k1 119620 0 snd_rawmidi 24896 1 snd_emu10k1 snd_seq_device 8684 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi snd_ac97_codec 83960 1 snd_emu10k1 snd_pcm 93416 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec snd_timer 24644 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 9860 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm snd_util_mem 4512 1 snd_emu10k1 snd_hwdep 9120 1 snd_emu10k1 snd 56260 7 snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep > You could also try poking around in the /proc/asound/ directory, for > example, cat /proc/asound/cards should show your SBLive chipset. Here I get: "--- no soundcards ---"