Re: Broken alsa-utils?

[Charlie Ritter]

Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> writes:

> Since about a week or two ago, the alsa-utils tools such as amixer and
> alsamixer fail to start:
>
>> amixer
> ALSA lib dlmisc.c:292:(snd1_dlobj_cache_get) Cannot open shared library 
> /gnu/store/5cbff8yc8f8qgcjrikmdf32pg4jy7inp-alsa-lib-1.1.6/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_ctl_pulse.so
>  ((null): 
> /gnu/store/5cbff8yc8f8qgcjrikmdf32pg4jy7inp-alsa-lib-1.1.6/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_ctl_pulse.so:
>  cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
> amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device or address
>
> And the aforementioned file is missing indeed.
>
> I see that in commit 2101cc3fb691f443b830fdf5f846ded5fa018739 Julien
> patched alsa-lib to use ALSA_PLUGIN_DIR.  Could be the culprit?

Put this in your ~/.asoundrc:

    pcm.!default {
      type hw
      card 0
    }

    ctl.!default {
      type hw
      card 0
    }