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If you put the newest alsa on there, alsamixergui gets installed by default... you can run it inside whatever x client you're using... and setting seem to autosave.
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Ticko
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ohoh, im in trouble. What does this mean?
xbmc@xbmc:~/alsa-driver-1.0.21$ alsamixer
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: Permission denied
xbmc@xbmc:~/alsa-driver-1.0.21$ sudo alsactl store
alsactl: save_state:1513: No soundcards found...
xbmc@xbmc:~/alsa-driver-1.0.21$ alsamixer
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: Permission denied
xbmc@xbmc:~/alsa-driver-1.0.21$ sudo alsamixer
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device
xbmc@xbmc:~/alsa-driver-1.0.21$
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yeah, you just didn't wrap it in [/codE] tags.
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2009-10-31, 00:01
(This post was last modified: 2009-10-31, 00:09 by Darknight.)
I followed that script and everything seemed to work fine up until it came to running alsamixer. It simply puts out the error:
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device
It used to work with version 18 and it's not an issue of copying and pasting incorrectly with the url since it downloaded and copiled just fine. What could it be that I'm missing? I saw someone above me posted the same problem and it was referred to an incorrect url which I know is not the case here.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
edit- It looks like a reboot solved that problem. Still no audio over HDMI or PCM showing up in alsamixer unfortunately =(
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Looks like a permission problem. Try:
sudo alsamixer
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I'm just giving you general advice. I am not an expert at linux, I've used it a few times in the last 15 years and then hard for the last week.
you must turn up the volume on alsa mixer
It's best to execute this script from a terminal window, SSH in from a program called PuTTy.EXE so you can scroll back and find out where the problem was.
I had installed many additional sound drivers at one time and could not get alsa to install at all. I ended up re-installing ubuntu.
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That script is very very incomplete thers plenty of stuffs not downloaded and installed run xbmscript and type alsa it should run hidden option and install alsa properly'ish