On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 21:55 -0600, Jason wrote: > Well at least I'm not the only one having problems with an Intel HDA. I'm using > the same chipset (CMI9880), but I'm using FC4. I get sound, but I can't control > the volume, except with XMMS after selecting 'ALSA 1.2.10 output plugin' and > configured it for hw:0,0 with software volume control. I was hoping the FC4 RPM > version would be adequate, but maybe I need to compile my own (gcc 4.1). > > Here's the result of 'aplay -l': > aplay: device_list:218: no soundcards found... > > system-configure-soundcard detects it correctly, but when I go to play a test > sound, I get: > amixer: Unable to find simple control 'Master',0 > > amixer: Unable to find simple control 'PCM-2',0 > > amixer: Unable to find simple control 'DRC Range',0 > > If I try 'aplay file.wav' I get: > ALSA lib conf.c:1578:(snd_config_load1) _toplevel_:51:23:No such file or directory > ALSA lib conf.c:2823:(snd_config_hook_load) /etc/alsa/cards/aliases.conf may be > old or corrupted: consider to remove or fix it > ALSA lib conf.c:2686:(snd_config_hooks_call) function snd_config_hook_load > returned error: No such file or directory > ALSA lib pcm.c:1959:(snd_pcm_open_conf) Invalid type for PCM default definition > (id: default, value: cards.pcm.default) > aplay: main:533: audio open error: Invalid argument This sounds like your ALSA setup is completely borked. Maybe you have the OSS driver loaded instead of ALSA. What is the output of "lsmod"? How about "amixer"? And "cat /proc/asound/cards"? Does /dev/snd/controlC0 exist? Lee