Alsamixer connection refused

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Hello
My audio plays well. The trouble is that i removed my cd drive for repairs, and so I plugged in my cd-walkman into line-in jack of my soundcard to play some new cd’s I purchased using the standard dual tip-ring jack cable. But I get no sound.

I had uninstalled Pulseaudio a few months back since I started having problems with it (No audio) and everything was fine. I now installed alsamixer to check if line-in is muted, however I get the infamous “connection refused” pop-up message. I double-checked that pulse audio is not installed yet I see a pulseaudio volume control applet under multimedia. That too gives a “connection refused” error.

Audio is fine right now I can play from disk, however I need to check the line-in settings but I can’t.

system: OpenSuse 11.0 2.6.25.18-0.2-default #1 SMP 2008-10-21 16:30:26 +0200 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Lspci output:

00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device a022
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16
Memory at fe024000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

01:05.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RS780 Azalia controller
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc RS780 Azalia controller
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
Memory at fdffc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [a0] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

dmesg :

ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:3021: autoconfig: line_outs=4 (0x14/0x15/0x16/0x17/0x0)
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:3025: speaker_outs=0 (0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:3029: hp_outs=1 (0x1b/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:3030: mono: mono_out=0x0
ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:3038: inputs: mic=0x18, fmic=0x19, line=0x1a, fline=0x0, cd=0x0, aux=0x0

rpm -qa | grep alsa

alsa-oss-1.0.15-48.1
alsa-1.0.16-39.1
alsa-oss-32bit-1.0.15-48.1
alsa-utils-1.0.16-35.1
alsamixergui-0.9.0rc1-705.1
alsa-plugins-pulse-1.0.16-57.1
alsa-plugins-1.0.16-57.1

Let me know what I can try next.

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alsamixer comes with alsa-utils, so you should have it installed. Lets check if this is a permissions problem. Do you get the same error if you run: su -c alsamixer ?

To get more diagnostic information on your PC, can you install tsalsa? PackMan :: Informationen zum Paket tsalsa
and then run it by typing: su -c tsalsa

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When I run amixer on opensuse 11.1 x86-64, I get:

% alsamixer
ALSA lib pulse.c:272:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: Connection refused

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Did you try running it with root permissions?