<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Mr. MailingLists <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mailinglists@soul-dev.com">mailinglists@soul-dev.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On 1/18/2010 9:36 AM, greg wm wrote:<br>
> i've both gutsy and hardy installed in separate partitions, i'm running<br>
> the hardy kernel. i can chroot into the gutsy partition, and firefox,<br>
> xmms, and xfce4-mixer are all able to play and control sound, so the<br>
> hardy kernel sound clearly works fine. in the hardy partition however,<br>
> firefox and audacious are mute, and xfce4-mixer comes up as a blank<br>
> window with no controls. no packages were forced, i'm quite sure all<br>
> dependencies were satisfied as a matter of course (tho how do i verify<br>
> that?). still, dependencies notwithstanding, my guess is that a<br>
> critical package or three are likely wanting. any suggestions?<br>
<br>
</div></div>What about alsamixer? Whats your sound card identified when running<br>
lspci or dmesg?<br></blockquote><div><br>alsamixer fails to launch, says<br><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><font size="1"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory</span></font><br>
</div>lsmod contains<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><font size="1"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">snd 56996 12 snd_es18xx,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_timer,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">snd_es18xx 35124 2</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">snd_hwdep 10500 1 snd_opl3_lib</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">snd_mpu401_uart 9728 1 snd_es18xx</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">snd_opl3_lib 12928 1 snd_es18xx</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">snd_page_alloc 11400 1 snd_pcm</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">snd_pcm 78724 1 snd_es18xx</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">snd_rawmidi 25760 1 snd_mpu401_uart</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">snd_seq_device 9612 2 snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">snd_timer 24836 2 snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">soundcore 8800 1 snd</span></font></div></div></div>