This may or may not be related to what I just discovered.  There's not much
out there (google) on this issue yet...

RHEL4 moved to udev, instead of devfs.  udev does /dev entries differently.
Long story short, I had to manually "MAKEDEV sound" to get the proper
/dev/dsp and /dev/mixer nodes created.  At that point ALSA and ARTS both
worked (after running alsamixer and turning everything on and volumes up).

I don't know about the defaulting to the wrong card, I never have had two
sound cards in one system.

HTH,
Dan W.


On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 01:55:06PM -0500, Robert E. Blair wrote:
> I have a system with two sound cards (one on board and one added just 
> for gnomemeeting).  Ever since going to SL 4 from SL 3 
> gome-volume-control fails on startup with the message "Sorry, no mixer 
> elements and/or devices found".  This is an x86_64 system.  Any clue as 
> to why this might be?  I notice that the system seems to default to the 
> wrong one for most things - it would be nice to correct this.  It is 
> not, however, at the top of my priority list.
> 
> Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> 
> >Paul A. Rombouts wrote:
> >
> >>May I make a request for a package that allows the PC speaker to beep 
> >>again on SL 40?
> >
> >
> >
> >In GNOME, I suppose this is possible to do by going to Sound & 
> >Video::Volume Control (gnome-volume-control to run it from command 
> >line) and remove the mute the "PC Speaker" (and increasing its volume).
> >
> >
> >I am sending a small screenshot attached.
> >
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