ALSA Audio Playback Problem

[xXCanisLupusXx]

Hi Guys, As You Can Tell I'm New To This Forum And To This Distro As A Whole.
So Far I'v Been So Impressed With Wolvix And Is Easily By Far My Favourite Distro.

My Knowledge Of Linux Is Rather Noobish, (We All Have To Start Somewhere),
And I'v Hit A Rather Frustrating Problem, My Computer Hates Every OS Apart From Ubuntu.

But To The Point, I Can Get Alsa To Detect My Sound Card And Everything, The Volume App In The Taskbar Finds It Too,
But When I Run alsamixer I Get "alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device"

ALSA Configurator Detects My Card As "hda-intel ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Azalia"
It's Chipset Sound, I Believe It's Realtek ALC883 High Definition Audio.

Any Help Would Be Greatly Appreciated,
(I Suspect It's Something Silly And Easy To Do)
Thanks In Advance

[Wolven]

Hi CanisLupus. Welcome to Wolvix.

First off. It's very hard to read your post when you capitalize the first letter on every word. Makes it feel like I'm reading a roller-coaster ride. Now I don't mind a little personal style here on the forums, but don't expect that more complex and/or lengthy questions will be answered if you type like this, because I doubt that anyone will be able to follow what you write. (I'm not saying this to be an ass, so please don't take it the wrong way.)

Now to answer your question: Have you tried running 'alsaconfig' as root?

Code:

alsaconfig

[xXCanisLupusXx]

None taken, and I apologise.

Yes I was logged in as root at the time as i was configuring ftp.
Thanks for the quick response.

[Wolven]

Do you get the same error when trying to start alsa as root and as a regular user? (Trying to determine if it's a permission problem)

I've found an entry in the ALSA wiki, which describes some steps to take if you get that error, but I don't have time to look at it closely right now, so have a look for yourself, it's a it down on the page:
http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/TroubleShooting

[xXCanisLupusXx]

Thanks alot!
New it was something as simple as this

"If your card's driver is installed and its name appears in /proc/asound/cards, and you still hear no sound, the most likely cause is that you haven't unmuted the right mixer channels and set their volume to nonzero. Note that ALSA sort of misnames the channels of the mixers of many cards. Use alsamixer to play around with the settings of the most obvious sounding channels. There are often descriptions of what the channels are in the ALSA modules or Sound cards sections about specific sound cards. Usually, make sure that the at least the Master and PCM (and Wave or Headphone if present) channels are unmuted and have non zero volume. For laptop users, try toggling the External Amplifier switch. "

Sorry if you feel i wasted your time :/,
But im truely thankful for such a quick response =]

Ps. I love the test sound btw lool ^^

[Wolven]

Great that you resolved it. No time wasted at all,