alsamixer: no mixer elems found!

This is a discussion about alsamixer: no mixer elems found! in the Linux Hardware category; Hi everyone, I installed Fedora Core 3 on my Toshiba A60 notebook, and, as I saw in a lot of posts, my soundcard doesn't work. I upgraded kernel to 2. 6. 9-1. 681_FC3 with up2date, tried /sbin/lspci:.

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Hi everyone,
I installed Fedora Core 3 on my Toshiba A60 notebook,
and, as I saw in a lot of posts, my soundcard doesn't work.
I upgraded kernel to 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 with up2date,
tried /sbin/lspci:
[tt]...
00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP150 AC'97 Audio Controller
...[/tt]
and /sbin/lsmod:
[tt]...
snd_atiixp_modem 17769 11
snd_ac97_codec 64401 2 snd_atiixp,snd_atiixp_modem
snd_pcm_oss 47608 0
snd_mixer_oss 17217 7 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 97993 3 snd_atiixp,snd_atiixp_modem,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 29765 1 snd_pcm
snd 54053 21 snd_atiixp,snd_atiixp_modem,and_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 9889 7 snd
snd_page_alloc 9673 3 snd_atiixp,snd_atiixp_modem,snd_pcm
...[/tt]
 
I added in /etc/rc.d/rc.local
[tt]modprobe snd_atiixp
modprobe snd_atiixp_modem[/tt]
just to be sure modules are loaded,
and as I saw in a post I tried to change /etc/modprob.conf from
[tt]...
alias snd-card-0 snd-atiixp
options snd-card-0 index=0
install snd-atiixp /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd_atiixp && /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
remove snd_atiixp { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-atiixp
...[/tt]
to
[tt]...
alias snd-card-0 snd-atiixp
alias sound-slot-0 snd-atiixp
...[/tt]
to semplify and remove multiple entries for sound-card-0.
 
In every case I citated, when I try Applications>System Settings>Sound Card Detection the ATI IXP150 is founded with snd_atiixp module but it doesn't work, and when I type
alsamixer (I tried with kmix, aumix too) I got the message:
No mixer elems found (or "no device found" with aumix).
How Could I do?
 
Thanks in advance

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does sound work when you log in as root? sometimes it's just a permissions problem. check to see if your user is in teh audio group by typing groups on teh command line.
 
you'll see all teh groups you belong to
 
[12/19/04][greg@otis:~]$ groups
greg disk lp cdrom audio src video users
 
 

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No, is not a permission problem,
but I solved recompiling the kernel and adding the part about Device>Sound>AdvancedLinuxSoundArchitecture>IXPxxxx not as module but as a part of kernel.
This morning I ran aumix, I powered on all the volumes and I could listen my soundcard!
Thank you anyway
 
Andrea

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woo! yeah, I've always had trouble with the alsa modules. It works so much better compiled rright into the newer 2.6 kernels