No sound: "Sorry, no mixer elements and/or devices found"

[Vadim Tarassov]

Hi Paul,

thanx a lot for replying. Still I am having this odd problem:

1) Gnome sounds are available
2) alsamixer shows all channels "ON", i.e. not muted
3) Here is output of my /sbin/lsmod:

[root at x1-6-00-0c-6e-2e-e0-67 vadim]# /sbin/lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
tuner                  15380  0
tvaudio                18316  0
msp3400                18836  0
bttv                  129292  0
video_buf              14468  1 bttv
i2c_algo_bit            7304  1 bttv
v4l2_common             4864  1 bttv
btcx_risc               3592  1 bttv
i2c_core               16388  5 tuner,tvaudio,msp3400,bttv,i2c_algo_bit
videodev                6656  1 bttv
snd_pcm_oss            40740  0
snd_mixer_oss          13824  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_intel8x0           26280  0
snd_ac97_codec         50436  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm                68872  2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0
snd_timer              17156  1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc          7940  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
gameport                3328  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_mpu401_uart         4864  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_rawmidi            17184  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device          6152  1 snd_rawmidi
snd                    38372  9 
snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore               6112  1 snd
parport_pc             19392  1
lp                      8236  0
parport                29640  2 parport_pc,lp
ipv6                  184288  8
autofs4                10624  0
sunrpc                101064  1
forcedeth              10624  0
ipt_REJECT              4736  6
iptable_filter          2048  1
ip_tables              13440  2 ipt_REJECT,iptable_filter
floppy                 47440  0
sg                     27552  0
libata                 29312  0 [permanent]
scsi_mod               91344  2 sg,libata
nls_utf8                1536  1
nls_cp437               5376  1
vfat                   10496  1
fat                    33472  1 vfat
dm_mod                 33184  0
ehci_hcd               21896  0
ohci_hcd               14748  0
button                  4504  0
battery                 6924  0
asus_acpi               8472  0
ac                      3340  0
ext3                  102376  2
jbd                    40216  1 ext3

and here is my /etc/modprobe.conf:

[root at x1-6-00-0c-6e-2e-e0-67 vadim]# cat /etc/modprobe.conf
# Note: for use under 2.4, changes must also be made to modules.conf!
alias usb-controller ohci-hcd
alias usb-controller1 ehci-hcd
alias char-major-81-* bttv
alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394
alias eth0 forcedeth
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-intel8x0 && 
/usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 ||:
remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; };
alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0
alias scsi_hostadapter sata_sil
alias char-major-81-* bttv
alias char-major-81-* bttv
alias char-major-81-* bttv
alias char-major-81-* bttv
alias char-major-81-* bttv
alias char-major-81-* bttv
alias char-major-81-* bttv
alias char-major-81-* bttv
alias char-major-81-* bttv
alias char-major-81-* bttv
[root at x1-6-00-0c-6e-2e-e0-67 vadim]#

However I can not get sound from any application and volume control 
produces the same error message as below ....

Do you have any other suggestion to try?

Thanx a lot and best regards, vadim tarassov.

Paul wrote:

>Hi,
>
>  
>
>> "Sorry, no mixer elements and/or devices found"
>>
>>However sound card detection tools finds my card: nForce2 AC97 Audio 
>>Controller, module snd-intel8x0.
>>
>>Does anyone know what's happenning?
>>    
>>
>
>Yep.
>
>Change to su and edit modprobe.conf so it reads
>
>include /etc/modprobe.conf.dist
>
>alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
>alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
>alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
>install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-intel8x0
>&& /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 ||:
>remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; };
>
>alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0
>
>(leaving in any other alias' of course!)
>
>save and try it. You'll find it works. Or should!
>
>(I had this problem when FC2 was in rawhide - the fix works nicely :-)
>
>TTFN
>
>Paul
>  
>