[voyager2]

Why is the alsamixer gone?

I am using a simple guide to get a bleeding edge installation and it always works. But yesterday I tried to do the alsa upgrade script and it run true in a few sec so I know something was wrong. Tried typing alsamixer and got the message that is was not installed..

But its always there, every time I do this I have the old mixer.

So it gave me a hint installing it manually and it works BUT the alsa upgrade script it not working anymore. 3 days ago it did. I think the alsa mixer is part of the base installation or is it part of the XBMC installation ?? is it not included anymore in the bleeding edge releases ?

1 install the base system using the 9 MB cd.
2 add the deb's to the 3rd party sources.list
3 import key : sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 64234534

4 installing xbmc : sudo apt-get install xbmc xinit x11-xserver-utils
5 installing proper nuild-essentials : sudo apt-get install build-essential cdbs fakeroot dh-make debhelper debconf libstdc++5 dkms linux-headers-$(uname -r)

6 download video driver : wget http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Li...6-pkg1.run

7 Make it executable : sudo chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86-185.18.36-pkg1.run
8 run the driver : sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-185.18.31-pkg1.run
9 create proper xorg.conf file : sudo nvidia-xconfig -s --no-logo --force-generate

10 install xbmc helpers : sudo apt-get install xbmc-live python-apt
11 run the alsamixer update because my mainboard needs it.

Help…!!

[voyager2]

Oke maybe a simpler question, when is the alsa mixer installed ? is it part of my minimal unbutu installation or comes it with the xbmc installation?

[bobo1on1]

Code:

apt-cache search alsamixer

That might provide more insight, alsamixer probably hides in the alsa-utils package.

[voyager2]

alsa-utils - ALSA utilities
alsamixergui - graphical soundcard mixer for ALSA soundcard driver
gnome-alsamixer - ALSA sound mixer for GNOME

Its there and if I type sudo apt-get install alsa-utils it will install but the upgrade script is far from happy with it, and leaves me with no sound.

After folowing the tutorial its always there i never had to install it manualy.
So whats going on?

(bekent tweakers gezicht ;-)

[bobo1on1]

You got a link to the guide?

(ja T.net kom ik wel eens)

[voyager2]

i am using this one :

http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=XBMCbuntu
but with some elements from :

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=54350

I replaced the sources .list by the one from the second tutorial and it seems to give me a bleeding edge version of XBMC. Found out by mistake and it works.

sudo pico /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xbmc.org.list
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc-svn/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc-svn/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

That’s the only thing I changed in the first tutorial, oh and the graphics driver version.

My first post shows the steps I’am doing one by one.

update-

I just did a complete install from just the first tutorial, like i did before and still no mixer installed by default.

I did a command line instalation ubuntu to see if it works that way, but i got a grub error 2 booting from my external usb hdd. Pffff.

[bobo1on1]

Seems the script doesn't install alsa-utils, you have to install it from source by hand.

[voyager2]

The script?, I don’t know when or where the mixer is suppose to install.

1 my linux minimum install?
2 my installation of xbmc?
3 the xbmc helper script ?

When is it supposed to be installed ? and why is now gone?

Again I can install in manually but the upgrade script is not happy. It’s more that I can stand the fact that I cannot explain why 3 days ago its not working like its suppose to be anymore.

[Tarantulas]

Using these instructions:

http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=XBMCbuntu#In...nal_Ubuntu

You get to step "Updating alsa"

and the script alsaup.sh seems to be missing from http://xbmc.org/wp-content/uploads/

you get a 404.

So, where did it go? If that is unknown, is it hosted some else so that folks with limited linux knowledge can easily install it? If so, where? Please be verbose.

Thanks!

[voyager2]

Yes the script is missing, but the missing script is not the problem using this it also works.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6589810

The real problem is that the upgrade script is not working if you install alsa manually, and that the old 0.18? mixer is not installed by default anymore.

Someone just decided “Mmmzz lets remove it from the default minimal ubuntu installation, yes that’s a good idée”

[Tarantulas]

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install wget build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`
wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/drive...1.0.21.tar.bz2
tar -xf alsa-driver-1.0.21.tar.bz2
cd alsa-driver-1.0.21
./configure
make
sudo make install
sudo ./snddevices
sudo apt-get install alsa-utils
alsamixer
sudo alsactl store

[JBNY]

I follow the above when I try to run alsamixer I get

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory

[BLKMGK]

Using these instructions:

http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=XBMCbuntu#In...nal_Ubuntu

You get to step "Updating alsa"

and the script alsaup.sh seems to be missing from http://xbmc.org/wp-content/uploads/

you get a 404.

So, where did it go? If that is unknown, is it hosted some else so that folks with limited linux knowledge can easily install it? If so, where? Please be verbose.

Thanks!

Curious, anyone know why Robots.txt blocks this url? Normally when I hit a 404 on something like this that I need I use Archive.org but this part of the site is blocked from their indexing...

[voyager2]

I have the same thing, function and_ctl_open failed for default : no such file or directory


If you use this one, you wel end up with the same error.

Why the hell did they take out the mixer? if you install it manualy and run the upgrade script ist no longer working, I hate this.

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cat /proc/asound/version


sudo apt-get -y install build-essential ncurses-dev gettext xmlto

sudo apt-get -y install linux-headers-`uname -r`



cd ~

wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/al...20.tar.bz2

wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/lib/alsa-...20.tar.bz2

wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/utils/als...20.tar.bz2



sudo mkdir -p /usr/src/alsa

cd /usr/src/alsa

sudo cp ~/alsa* .



sudo tar xjf alsa-driver*

sudo tar xjf alsa-lib*

sudo tar xjf alsa-utils*



cd alsa-driver*

sudo ./configure

sudo make

sudo make install



cd ../alsa-lib*

sudo ./configure

sudo make

sudo make install



cd ../alsa-utils*

sudo ./configure

sudo make

sudo make install



rm -f ~/alsa-driver*

rm -f ~/alsa-lib*

rm -f ~/alsa-utils*