Comment 6 for bug 205239

>Adna rim wrote on 2008-03-23: (permalink)
>But this Bug is a duplicat, I marked it as such.

Hi, how come you could mark it as a duplicate ? It's not the same bug at all !? In this one *Zenigata*
reports alsamixer does not function but _the sound does_, in the #192382 bug report *polarch* reports that the sound _does not_ function either.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/192382
"however no sound is coming out"

Well I'm coming here to say I've met with the same bug as *Zenigata* did:

I have a Via integrated card, the sound is really GOOD under Hardy Heron !
"$ lspci | grep Audio
04:01.0 Audio device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA High Definition Audio Controller (rev 10)"

But if I try to see how it goes in alsamixer:
"$ alsamixer
alsamixer: function snd_mixer_load failed: No such file or directory"

if I try as root, (even real root) it's the same.

"# alsamixer
alsamixer: function snd_mixer_load failed: No such file or directory".

What I can notice is that versions alsa-utils (which contains alsamixer) and alsa-base are different:
"find /var/cache/apt/archives/ -name 'alsa*'
/var/cache/apt/archives/alsa-base_1.0.16-0ubuntu4_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/alsa-utils_1.0.15-3ubuntu2_i386.deb"

And no new version has come out yet for alsa-utils (repositories informations just updated):
"wajig install alsa-utils
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
alsa-utils is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded."