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Dumped my other OS and installing arch for my main
Following the arch linux beginners guide
My sound card is a Creative X-FI ExtremeGamer
installed alsa-utils and alsa-libs
when I try to invoke alsamixer as user I get
function snd_ctl_open failed for default: no such file or directory
using x86_64 archlinux
Last edited by completist (2009-02-23 03:13:48)
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Is your user part of the audio group. What's the result of running "groups USERNAME"? If audio isn't listed then run,
gpasswd -a USERNAME audio
Edited to command quoted in Wiki: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ALS … ermissions
Last edited by leokent (2009-02-22 19:11:18)
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Is your user part of the audio group. What's the result of running "groups USERNAME"? If audio isn't listed then run,
gpasswd -a USERNAME audio
Edited to command quoted in Wiki: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ALS … ermissions
Did that and still a no go.
Found this link http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index. … ative_Labs
Which tells me card not supported yet.
What I did as a workaround for now is enabled onboard sound through BIOS and sound works.
I'll get back to the X-FI a little later.
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Ok figured it out. My sound card is supported by oss so I have installed that instead. using alsa with onboard sound was terrible. I could barely hear it with all volumes almost all the way up. Oss works for me.
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