Topic: [Solved] Alsa stopped working
I went into Services/Daemons to see what all was starting up, and if there was anything that didn't need to. I saw that Audio Settings Management(alsa-utils) was unchecked, so I checked it. Right after (before closing) I decided I didn't want to mess with it and unchecked it again. At that point my sound stopped working. I rebooted, and now the unlock button in Services/Daemons is greyed out. Sound doesn't work and I get these errors:
adanny@anon:~$ alsamixer
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory
danny@anon:~$ alsa reload
mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/run/alsa': Permission denied
/sbin/alsa: Warning: Failed to create /var/run/alsa/.
/sbin/alsa: Warning: Not keeping list of removed modules because /var/run/alsa is absent.
It will not be possible automatically to reload these modules.
Unloading ALSA sound driver modules:/sbin/alsa: 219: cannot create /var/run/alsa/modules-removed: Directory nonexistent
snd-atiixp snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm snd-seq-dummy snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi snd-rawmidi snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-timer snd-seq-device snd-page-alloc.
mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/run/alsa': Permission denied
Loading ALSA sound driver modules: (none to reload).
danny@anon:~$ Any idea what happened/how to fix it? 
Edit: Fixed it. Somehow it was muted in gnome-volume-control but not alsa mixer. I never use gnome-volume-control (didn't even know it was installed), so how that happened is beyond me. Nonetheless, it's working.
Last edited by dannytatom (2009-01-15 07:21:29)
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