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#1 2009-02-22 17:38:58

completist
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Error when I try to invoke alsamixer as user[SOLVED]

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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#2 2009-02-22 19:05:54

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Re: Error when I try to invoke alsamixer as user[SOLVED]

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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#3 2009-02-22 22:05:09

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Re: Error when I try to invoke alsamixer as user[SOLVED]

leokent wrote:

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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#4 2009-02-23 03:13:05

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Re: Error when I try to invoke alsamixer as user[SOLVED]

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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