From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Clemens Ladisch Subject: Re: Problems running "amixer" Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:20:13 +0200 Message-ID: <4C347F0D.1050305@ladisch.de> References: <4C347742.3050404@ladisch.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from out3.smtp.messagingengine.com (out3.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.27]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2D50244D1 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 2010 15:20:13 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: Adish Kuvelker Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? Adish Kuvelker wrote: > I don't have this file ".asoundrc" in my ramdisk. Do I need this? No. >>>> ALSA lib control.c:910:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL default I just tried without alsa.conf, and alsa-lib then outputs an additional error message in this case; so this is not your problem. Can you try "strace amixer"? Regards, Clemens