This machine has an audio chip on the mainboard and two USB audio adapters.
peter@dalton:~$ ls /dev/audio ls: cannot access /dev/audio: No such file or directory peter@dalton:~$ ls /dev/snd by-id controlC0 controlC2 pcmC0D0p pcmC1D0c pcmC2D0c seq by-path controlC1 pcmC0D0c pcmC0D1c pcmC1D0p pcmC2D0p timer peter@dalton:~$ alsamixer cannot open mixer: No such device peter@dalton:~$ alsamixergui Dialgue window shows, "alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device". Ie. the message which started this thread. I expect the problem is in detection or identification of sound devices. Here, any PCI bus machine with more than one sound device has always manifested unreliable identification of sound devices. Similar to the problem of identifying multiple ethernet adapters before udev could sort them. Order of appearance at boot up is just not a reliable means of identifying devices. If anyone has a promising suggestion or question, I'm happy to work on troubleshooting. Regards, ... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 Tel +13606390202 http://easthope.ca/peter.html Bcc: peter at easthope. ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org