Sound: Master and PCM controls missing

[GrahamB]

Hi All!

I get no sound. Please help. I need your ideas to point me in a useful direction. I'm not making any progress with this. :mad:

When running the GUI, system-config-soundcard, it shows the soundcard and driver, but it produces no test-sound, and I get this error message:
- amixer: Unable to find simple control 'Master',0
- amixer: Unable to find simple control 'PCM',0

I have an Audigy LS sound card, on FC2, with alsa-1-0.8 and driver ca0106. (Driver emu10k1 wouldn't load!)

QUESTIONS:
- How can I create these missing controls ?????
- Which software or tools can be used to help me debug this situation ?????
- Or, what should I learn about, to better help me understand this issue ?????

Hope you can help. I look forward to ANY and ALL ideas. ;)

[Proctologist]

Yes, I'm having the same problem, only in FC3, and now I can't even get my damn integrated AC97 to work which sucks because that ruins my streak of watching Band of Brothers :(. Well, any help with this would benefit me and him. I have the latest 2.6.10.blah.770 or whatever it's called (just forgot). I have that same card and same driver being loaded and the exact same behavior, only now, I also have it happening to my embedded, and I REALLY don't want to reinstall everything for some stupid ass sound problem, I've made too much progress with learning about Linux. Any help greatly appreciated!

[GrahamB]

Hi All - and Proctologist !

Finally Music :D
# Step1: downloaded alsa-oss-1.0.8 then installed with "./configure;make all;make install"
# Step2: "./configure --with-cards=ca0106 --with-sequencer=yes --with-oss=yes;make all;make install"
-- Note: using --with-oss=yes
-- Note: using make all, instead of make (maybe this was important, don't know!)
# Step3: ran "aplay some_tango_track.wav" - and nearly blew my head off - sweat music!

Advice thanks to Hunter at link: http://www.linuxforen.de/forums/archive/index.php/t-29533.html

Nothing else seems to have changed, though:
kmix still crashes; the aumix display appears corrupt; and system-config-soundcard still produces errors:
amixer: Unable to find simple control 'Master',0
amixer: Unable to find simple control 'PCM',0

Maybe some of my repositories have been corrupted? By installing the alsa-oss-1.0.8 seems to suggest that. Any ideas on finding where the corruption exists?

Anyway thanks everyone :)