Problems with Alsa drivers

[[-dYNAmaX111-]]

Currently my computer is having problems with the sound. My sound wont work. When i run alsamixer i get

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device

I get this error message when i run /etc/init.d/alsa restart

Storing ALSA mixer settings ... failed
Restoring ALSA mixer settings ... failed:
You may want to run 'alsactl restore' manually to view any errors.

Please help me. I am using 2.4.26 kernel version + intel 810 Sound (onboard sound wiht nForce2 Chipset)

[Dark Ninja]

Did you check out Google with your error?

http://www.google.com/search?&q=%22alsamixer:%20function%20snd_ctl_open%20failed %20for%20default:%20No%20such%20device%22

That brings up links like this one...

http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=TroubleShooting

...which has help like this...

4) If you run "alsamixer" and get:

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device

Solutions:

* Make sure you have files in /dev/snd by typing "ls /dev/snd". If no files listed, run the alsa snddevices script to create them
* If files exist in /dev/snd, make sure your user has access to them. Test this by running "alsamixer" as root.

[bwkaz]

And, of course, make sure the Alsa kernel module(s) is (are) loaded.

lsmod

modprobe snd-XXXXX

(where XXXXX depends on your soundcard; for Intel 8x0, the module is probably snd-intel8x0)