[alsa-devel] Problems running "amixer"

[Adish Kuvelker]

Hello,

I don't have this file ".asoundrc" in my ramdisk. Do I need this?

Regards
Aadish

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Adish Kuvelker <adkuvi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Clemens,
>
> I have the "alsa" folder with the files alsa.conf. My "amixer" utility
> has been copied under "/bin".
> I followed a mail thread which said to load "share" folder under
> "/usr". But even with this the problem persisted.
>
> I'm just pasting here the contents of my /usr/share
> # ls share/
> aclocal  alsa     locale
> # ls -la share/alsa/
> drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root         1024 May 12  2010 .
> drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root         1024 May 12  2010 ..
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         7701 May 12  2010 alsa.conf
> drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         2048 May 12  2010 cards
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         1024 May 12  2010 pcm
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         3205 May 12  2010 sndo-mixer.alisp
>
>
>
>
> Just to make sure, do I have to install my entire staging area created
> through install of alsa-lib and alsa-utils in to the /usr/share?
>
> Regards;
> Aadish
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Clemens Ladisch <clemens at ladisch.de> wrote:
>> Adish Kuvelker wrote:
>>> # ./amixer
>>> ALSA lib control.c:910:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL default
>>
>> Apparently, alsa-lib has not been installed correctly, i.e.,
>> /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf and other files in this directory are missing.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Clemens
>>
>