No Sound Card Found on Compaq EN P650

James Pifer jep at obrien-pifer.com
Fri Jan 27 19:48:51 UTC 2006


I installed FC4 on a Compaq EN PIII 650. For some reason it didn't
detect the sound card, a Creative Labs SoundBlaster AudioPCI 128. 

So I checked alsa's site for loading it manually and tried following the
instructions. The modules all load ok, but when I tried to load
alsamixer I get:
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or
directory

If I do 'strace -eopen alsamixer' I get:
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY)      = 3
open("/usr/lib/libncurses.so.5", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/lib/libasound.so.2", O_RDONLY)   = 3
open("/lib/libm.so.6", O_RDONLY)        = 3
open("/lib/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY)       = 3
open("/lib/libpthread.so.0", O_RDONLY)  = 3
open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY)        = 3
open("/etc/alsa/alsa.conf", O_RDONLY)   = 3
open("/dev/snd/controlC0", O_RDONLY)    = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/dev/aloadC0", O_RDONLY)          = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/dev/snd/controlC0", O_RDWR)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/dev/snd/controlC0", O_RDONLY)    = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/dev/aloadC0", O_RDONLY)          = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/dev/snd/controlC0", O_RDWR)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or
directory

These directories do not exist, do I need to create them manually?

Also, 'lsmod' gives me in case it helps:
snd_ens1370            24353  0
gameport               18633  1 snd_ens1370
snd_rawmidi            30305  1 snd_ens1370
snd_seq_dummy           3653  0
snd_seq_oss            37057  0
snd_seq_midi_event      9153  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                62289  5
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          8781  4
snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            51185  0
snd_mixer_oss          17857  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm               100169  2 snd_ens1370,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              33605  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc          9669  2 snd_ens1370,snd_pcm
snd_ak4531_codec        8129  1 snd_ens1370
snd                    57157  10
snd_ens1370,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_ak4531_codec
soundcore              10913  1 snd
parport_pc             28933  1
lp                     13001  0
parport                40585  2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4                29253  2
rfcomm                 42333  0
l2cap                  30661  5 rfcomm
bluetooth              56133  4 rfcomm,l2cap
sunrpc                167813  1
md5                     4033  1
ipv6                  268097  12
uhci_hcd               35152  0
i2c_piix4               8657  0
i2c_core               21569  1 i2c_piix4
e100                   47297  0
mii                     5441  1 e100
floppy                 65269  0
dm_snapshot            17413  0
dm_zero                 2113  0
dm_mirror              26029  0
ext3                  132553  2
jbd                    86233  1 ext3
dm_mod                 58101  6 dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror

Any help is appreciated. 

Thanks,
James




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