Alsamixer has no PCM option

[dellthinker]

Hi all, I can't believe I'm still struggling with this sound problem. But I haven't given up and have no reason to do so. So I been playing around with alsamixer and noticed that everything had a option except the PCM section. See here for pic... So if anyone has any solutions to add to my hunt to fix this I'd appreciate it. Thanx in advance.

[reed9]

We need more info.

wget -O alsa-info.sh http://212.20.107.51/alsa-info.sh
bash ./alsa-info.sh

It will upload the output and give you a url. Please post that.

[dellthinker]

This is a lot of info so I posted it here.

[reed9]

I think the easiest thing to try for now is upgrading to a more recent version of alsa and see if that fixes things.

[dellthinker]

Okay so I took your advice and ran the Alsa upgrade script and got this error message in the log

checking for ALSA... configure: error: Package requirements (alsa >= 1.0.11) were not met:

No package 'alsa' found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables ALSA_CFLAGS
and ALSA_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

alsa-plugins-1.0.21 configure failed

Any suggestions as to what I need to do next?

[reed9]

You may just be missing packages.

sudo apt-get install alsa-utils alsa-base alsa-tools

[dellthinker]

alsa-utils and alsa-base were already installed so it installed alsa-tools and I tried the upgrade again and got the same error.