[SOLVED] ALSA not working for "default" device

Question

If I try to use alsamixer I get a "cannot open mixer: No such file or directory" error but if I try alsamixer -c 1 to select card 1, it works but seems to be causing issues with applications that are using default.  Doing lspci shows that there are two entries labeled "Audio Device:", one an "intel series 8 HD audio controller" and one an "intel haswell-ult audio controller"
Any thoughts?
Last edited by 3mpach3r (2014-09-19 02:39:18)

Answer 1

 Several. What are your Alsa configuration files? Did you change the default setup in any way? Do you use card 1 as default? Do you use Pulseaudio?
 To change the default sound cards control for alsa only use defaults.ctl node:
$ cat ~/.asoundrc
defaults.ctl.card 1; # although the name identifier
# should be preferred
# execute
echo defaults.ctl.card \"$(cat /proc/asound/card1/id)\"\; > ~/.asoundrc
 To change the default sound card using the preferred way, use modprobe options. In your case most probably:
$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/50-alsa.conf
options snd-hda-intel index=1,0
Edit: Added ";".
Last edited by emeres (2014-09-18 23:00:21)