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#1 2004-11-17 06:34:08

_will
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alsa: No mixer elems found

so this is addressed a bunch of times on the board but i can't find what im doing wrong. that and its 1:30am and im tired of looking

sound was mostly working the first install of arch (then the harddrive died)  and now i get

[root@MobileEvil will]# alsamixer
No mixer elems found

i had sound working for root.. and was trying to get it usable universily. i played with both udev and devfsd permision files.. eventually i rebooted

when the computer came to, i get the no mixer elems.. error regardless of the user

i noticed on reboot it says starting devfsd
i've installed with arch 7 base 2


i have no clue what im doing -- so i might put too much in below -- sorry

[root@MobileEvil will]# groups
root bin daemon sys adm disk wheel slocate audio
[will@09:29:09 ~]$ groups
wheel users slocate audio sound
[root@MobileEvil will]# cat /etc/group | grep -v "#"
root::0:root
bin::1:root,bin,daemon
daemon::2:root,bin,daemon
sys::3:root,bin
adm::4:root,daemon
tty::5:
disk::6:root
lp::7:daemon
mem::8:
kmem::9:
wheel::10:root,will
ftp::11:
mail::12:
smmsp::25:
nobody::99:
users::100:
slocate:x:101:will,root
audio:!:102:will,root
sound:!:103:will
[will@09:17:31 ~]$  echo | cat /etc/rc.conf | grep -v "#" 

HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
TIMEZONE=Canada/Pacific
KEYMAP=us
CONSOLEFONT=
USECOLOR="yes"

USELVM="no"

HOSTNAME="MobileEvil"

MODULES=(!usbserial !ide-scsi e1000 snd_intel8x0m snd-pcm-oss)

lo="lo 127.0.0.1"
eth0="dhcp"
INTERFACES=(lo eth0)

gateway="default gw 192.168.0.1"
ROUTES=(!gateway)

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng hotplug !pcmcia network netfs crond cups alsamixer)
[will@09:15:57 ~]$ cat /etc/devfsd.conf | grep -v "#"

REGISTER        .*              MKOLDCOMPAT
UNREGISTER      .*              RMOLDCOMPAT

REGISTER        ^sound/.*       PERMISSIONS     root.audio 660
REGISTER        ^snd/.*         PERMISSIONS     root.audio 660

REGISTER        ^cdroms/.*      PERMISSIONS     root.optical 660


REGISTER        .*              MKNEWCOMPAT
UNREGISTER      .*              RMNEWCOMPAT

LOOKUP          .*              MODLOAD





REGISTER        ^input/mouse0$  CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink $devname usbmouse
UNREGISTER      ^input/mouse0$  CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink usbmouse
REGISTER        ^input/mice$    CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink $devname usbmouse
UNREGISTER      ^input/mice$    CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink usbmouse
[will@09:16:07 ~]$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
lp                     11784  0 
parport                42312  1 lp
ohci_hcd               22660  0 
hci_usb                11904  0 
bluetooth              50820  1 hci_usb
snd_intel8x0           36428  1 
gameport                5120  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_mpu401_uart         8704  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_rawmidi            26276  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device          8456  1 snd_rawmidi
usblp                  13696  0 
ehci_hcd               31748  0 
uhci_hcd               33680  0 
shpchp                101252  0 
pci_hotplug            13060  1 shpchp
tsdev                   8128  0 
joydev                 10432  0 
evdev                   9984  0 
snd_pcm_oss            56488  0 
snd_mixer_oss          21376  3 snd_pcm_oss
snd_intel8x0m          19400  1 
snd_ac97_codec         73808  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m
snd_pcm               101508  3 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0m
snd_timer              27140  1 snd_pcm
snd                    58980  10 snd_intel8x0,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0m,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore              10848  3 snd
snd_page_alloc         10248  3 snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m,snd_pcm
e1000                  88836  0 
rtc                    13128  0 

part from /etc/udev/permissions.d/udev.permissions

fd[01]*:root:root:0660

dsp*:root:audio:0660
audio*:root:audio:0660
midi*:root:audio:0660
mixer*:root:audio:0660
sequencer*:root:audio:0660
sound/*:root:audio:0660
snd/*:root:audio:0660
beep:root:audio:0660
admm*:root:audio:0660
adsp*:root:audio:0660
aload*:root:audio:0660
amidi*:root:audio:0660
dmfm*:root:audio:0660
dmmidi*:root:audio:0660
sndstat:root:audio:0660

sr*:root:optical:660
scd*:root:optical:660
pcd*:root:optical:0660
cdrom*:root:optical:0660
dvd:root:optical:0660
rdvd:root:optical:0660
cdroms/*:root:optical:0660

pilot:root:root:0660

and, as i said, the error seems to not care which user i am

[will@09:18:49 ~]$ alsamixer
No mixer elems found

[root@MobileEvil will]# alsamixer
No mixer elems found

(i installed today.. the times still off  :oops: )
sorry for all the -code- snips
thanks in advance
will

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#2 2004-11-17 16:01:04

xerxes2
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Re: alsa: No mixer elems found

it looks ok to me,
try to remove hotplug from the daemons array and if that doesn't work switch to udev,


arch + gentoo + initng + python = enlisy

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#3 2004-11-17 20:10:24

_will
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Re: alsa: No mixer elems found

thanks for the timely replly (as seems to be the higher standard of the archlinux board)

hotpluggin didn't seem to affect it either way
but [for anyone searching]
snd_intel8x0m  and
snd_intel8x0
are not the same thing
-- i took the m off in rc.conf (after modprobe -r 'ing it and hearing sound) and sound seems to work fine

however.. sound is working.. again after a reboot and lsmod has intel8x0m in there

i donno.. but sounds working

maybe does it matter in what order things are loaded in


will

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#4 2004-11-17 20:17:09

phrakture
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Re: alsa: No mixer elems found

remove hotplug from the DAEMONS array altogether - hotplug always screws things up and I would HIGHLY recommend never using it.... ever! (I hate hotplug)

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#5 2004-11-17 20:20:50

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Re: alsa: No mixer elems found

phrakture wrote:

remove hotplug from the DAEMONS array altogether - hotplug always screws things up and I would HIGHLY recommend never using it.... ever! (I hate hotplug)

it's quite useful if you use USB devices through libusb which does not seem to detect them w/o hotplug tho.  wink


I recognize that while theory and practice are, in theory, the same, they are, in practice, different. -Mark Mitchell

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#6 2004-11-17 20:26:26

phrakture
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Re: alsa: No mixer elems found

udev handles USB devices just fine... actually I should rephrase my earlier post - I hate the hotplug daemon, not hotplug itself (which is a large part of udev)

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#7 2004-11-18 02:32:04

_will
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Re: alsa: No mixer elems found

as above^ i don't have udev  and need my usb printer

how hard is it to go to udev/is it worth it

(no windows to boot into if things go horribly wrong... and generally i need a printer for homework)


thanks in advance
will

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#8 2004-11-18 16:36:43

xerxes2
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Re: alsa: No mixer elems found

_will wrote:

how hard is it to go to udev/is it worth it

it's very easy to switch to udev and it looks like it is the future,

there is three steps to do, check this wiki,
wiki->howtos->system->udev...

hope you not screw it up,  big_smile


arch + gentoo + initng + python = enlisy

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#9 2004-11-18 18:30:52

phrakture
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Re: alsa: No mixer elems found

_will wrote:

how hard is it to go to udev/is it worth it

udev is very easy to switch to... to summarize the howto:

1) append "devfs=nomount" to your kernel boot line in lilo.conf or menu.lst
2) convert your devfs permissions and things to udev style (to much info for me to summarize here, but it's easy, just read the howto)
3) enjoy

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#10 2004-11-18 22:35:17

_will
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Re: alsa: No mixer elems found

thanks
hopefully i get around to it over the weekend


thanks again
will

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