[linux-audio-user] Mixers (maybe)

I had to rebuild my system a couple of weeks ago, and I'm having some trouble with sound. What I want to have work is my SBLive sound card under alsa. I did the install from a knoppix disk, and I boot it with the alsa option. I can play sounds using timidity, aplay, and realaudio (at least), and record using audacity. kmix seems to work correctly. However, when I try to run most of the mixers, I get error messages, and therefore I can't use sound apps that expect to be able to run a mixer. I seem to get all the same errors whether I'm root or a user, so I think the permissions are set up correctly. Here are some sample error messages: #pydance pygame.error: mixer system not initialized #pysol Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/games/pysol/pysolaudio.py", line 229, in startServer self.audiodev.init() error: unable to open audio: No available audio device PySol: could not connect to pysolsoundserver, sound disabled. root@tuba:/etc/init.d# ./alsa restart Storing ALSA mixer settings...failed. Starting ALSA..../alsa: Error: alsactl restore failed with message 'alsactl: load_state:1134: No soundcards found...'. done. root@tuba:/etc/init.d# [~]# alsamixer alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device [~]# [~]# amixer amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device Does anyone have any idea what could be wrong? I've done a lot of googling, and these error messages aren't uncommon, but none of the suggested solutions seems to work for me. -- Laura (mailto:lconrad@laymusic.org , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (501) 641-5011 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139