sound not working = slight problem

[Paul Dickson]

On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 08:02:15 -0700, Michael Havens wrote:

> so I was writing an email about this when the though came to check in my bag 
> of tricks for a solution to this sound problem! So I grab my 3x5 cards and go 
> to the 's' section and I see 'Set up ALSA PCI SoundCard' with the 
> instructions to enter:
> 	amixer groups; amixer set PCM 100 unmute
> with the response:
> 	amixer: Unknown command 'groups'...
> 	amixer: Unable to find simple control 'PCM',0
> 
> So I do a:
> 	
> 	bmike1 at 0[~]$ lspci
> 	0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598 [Apollo MVP3] (rev
> 		04)
> 	0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo 	
> 		MVP3/Pro133x AGP]
> 	0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/A/B PCI-to-ISA 
> 		[Apollo VP] (rev 47)
> 	0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
> 		VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
> 	0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 
> 		Controller (rev 02)
> 	0000:00:07.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B ACPI (rev 10)
> 	0000:00:0a.0 Serial controller: 3Com Corp, Modem Division 56K FaxModem Model 
> 		5610 (rev 01)
> 	0000:00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 	
> 		100] (rev 05)
> 	0000:00:0c.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-2940U/UW/D / AIC-7881U
> 	0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV10 [GeForce 256 	
> 		SDR] (rev 10)
> 
> but I don't see the sound card in there (not that this means much).
> Yes, there is a pci soundcard in there. At on point in my 'adventures with 
> linux' I had used the 'Setup ALSA PCI Soundcard' command successfully.
> I did investigate the man pages for amixer and it appears to have changed some 
> but when I modified the command it didn't help.
> 
> Ideas? Proposals? What?

How about giving some clue about you are using?  My mind reading
abilities have a finite range.

Distribution? Kernel version?

	-Paul