no sound

[Dennis Kibbe]

On Friday 04 November 2005 21:42, Dragos Neagu wrote:
> Hey folks,
> I've been trying to figure out this sound problem for about 2 weeks
> now and no luck.  My brother has a Dell Dimension 3000, and it comes
> with integrated audio and he also added Sound Blaster Live 24 bit.
> After trying several things unsuccessfully, we decided to pull out
> sound blaster card and re-installed Ubuntu, so now I am only running
> on the integrated audio.
<SNIP>
> "alsa-mixer" gives me:
> alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or
> directory
<SNIP>
>
> any ideas?  i'll also be on irc :-)

Look at the Alsamixer man page and start alsamixer with the -c option.  It may 
be that your actual device is card 1 not card 0 which is the default.  This 
has worked for me in the past.

Dennisk