Thanks. It all works beautifully now. I will look out for unloaded modules in the future.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/7/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Adam Rosi-Kessel</b> <<a href="mailto:adam@rosi-kessel.org">
adam@rosi-kessel.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Okay, so it's built as a module. Have you tried just
<br><br> modprobe snd_mixer_oss<br><br>??<br><br>Karl Sokol wrote:<br>> grep "MIXER_OSS" /boot/config-`uname -r`<br>> CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS=m<br>><br>> nahash@ubuntu:~$ rexima -v<br>> rexima: couldn't open mixer device.
<br>><br>> alsamixer works fine.<br>><br>><br>> On 10/6/05, *Adam Rosi-Kessel* <<a href="mailto:adam@rosi-kessel.org">adam@rosi-kessel.org</a><br>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:adam@rosi-kessel.org">adam@rosi-kessel.org
</a>>> wrote:<br>><br>> Yes, I think you're right that it's a mixer problem, not a 'volume<br>> button<br>> keys' problem.<br>><br>> You might need ALSA's OSS emulation enabled... What do you get from
<br>><br>> grep "MIXER_OSS" /boot/config-`uname -r`<br>><br>> ??<br>><br>> On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 12:33:16PM -0500, Karl Sokol wrote:<br>> > So, these are the mods that seemed relevant to sound. I notice
<br>> the absence of<br>>
> an entry similar to your
"snd_mixer_oss 19296 1<br>> snd_pcm_oss" OSS is<br>> > not configuered as an output device at all. That is, only alsa<br>> works with<br>> > xmms.<br>> ><br>
> > Since alsamixer works on its own, is it possible to see what<br>> module or device<br>> > it is using?<br>> ><br>> > snd_intel8x0 29984 3<br>> > snd_ac97_codec 64608 1 snd_intel8x0
<br>>
>
snd_pcm 84872 3
snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec<br>> >
snd_timer 23300 1
snd_pcm<br>> >
snd 50276 9<br>> snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer<br>>
>
soundcore
9824 1 snd<br>> >
snd_page_alloc 9604 2
snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm<br>> ><br>> > Thanks for the google link, but I did rather extensive searching<br>> and did not<br>> > see many instances of this problem, except for a few people as
<br>> clueless as<br>> > myself <a href="http://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=23273">http://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=23273</a><br>> > It seems like it has more to do with the setup of the mixer than
<br>> the keyboard.<br>> ><br>> > On 10/4/05, Stephen R Laniel <<a href="mailto:steve@laniels.org">steve@laniels.org</a><br>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:steve@laniels.org">steve@laniels.org
</a>>> wrote:<br>> ><br>> > On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 11:45:24AM -0500, Karl Sokol wrote:<br>> > > " nahash@ubuntu:/$ hotkeys: Unable to open `/dev/mixer': No<br>> such file or
<br>> > > directory"<br>> > ><br>> > > I tried making a softlink to alsamixer, and I get<br>> ><br>> > I don't know about the Natural Keyboard problem, though this
<br>> > google query might help you:<br>> > <a href="http://shorl.com/gigrabratokare">http://shorl.com/gigrabratokare</a><br>> ><br>> > As for /dev/mixer: you don't want to symlink it to
<br>> > alsamixer. Alsamixer is a program, whereas all the files in<br>> > /dev/ are (basically) files corresponding to physical<br>> > devices, or abstractions sitting on top of physical devices.
<br>> > /dev/mixer is supposed to correspond to an actual component<br>> > in your sound card. The way one normally creates a file in<br>> > /dev is by loading the appropriate module.
<br>> ><br>> > I forget which module creates /dev/mixer, but I'd bet it's<br>> > one of the snd* modules. Below is my list of snd* modules;<br>> > yours will be different, depending on your hardware, but
<br>> > looking at your own list of modules (via 'lsmod') will help<br>> > you narrow it down.<br>> ><br>> > If others have more specific information about which module<br>
> > generates /dev/mixer, feel free to post.<br>> ><br>>
>
snd_intel8x0
33056 1<br>>
>
snd_ac97_codec
83452 1 snd_intel8x0<br>>
>
snd_pcm_oss 52672 0<br>>
>
snd_mixer_oss 19296 1
snd_pcm_oss<br>>
>
snd_pcm 88840 3<br>> snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss<br>>
>
snd_timer 24164 1
snd_pcm<br>> >
snd 54884 8<br>> ><br>> snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer<br>>
>
soundcore
9600 1 snd<br>>
>
snd_page_alloc
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