On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Mr. MailingLists <mailinglists at soul-dev.com > wrote: > On 1/18/2010 9:36 AM, greg wm wrote: > > i've both gutsy and hardy installed in separate partitions, i'm running > > the hardy kernel. i can chroot into the gutsy partition, and firefox, > > xmms, and xfce4-mixer are all able to play and control sound, so the > > hardy kernel sound clearly works fine. in the hardy partition however, > > firefox and audacious are mute, and xfce4-mixer comes up as a blank > > window with no controls. no packages were forced, i'm quite sure all > > dependencies were satisfied as a matter of course (tho how do i verify > > that?). still, dependencies notwithstanding, my guess is that a > > critical package or three are likely wanting. any suggestions? > > What about alsamixer? Whats your sound card identified when running > lspci or dmesg? > alsamixer fails to launch, says alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory lsmod contains snd 56996 12 snd_es18xx,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_timer,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device snd_es18xx 35124 2 snd_hwdep 10500 1 snd_opl3_lib snd_mpu401_uart 9728 1 snd_es18xx snd_opl3_lib 12928 1 snd_es18xx snd_page_alloc 11400 1 snd_pcm snd_pcm 78724 1 snd_es18xx snd_rawmidi 25760 1 snd_mpu401_uart snd_seq_device 9612 2 snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi snd_timer 24836 2 snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib soundcore 8800 1 snd -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20100119/587aabe7/attachment.htm