Help would be needed once again...

I'm building a frontend only machine from an old PIII 600MHz, by installing R5E50 into it. It originally had the ISA-bus Sound Blaster AWE32, but I couldn't get it working no matter what I did, so I decided to get a new soundcard. I bought a Sound Blaster Audigy SE, because it seems to be well supported for my purposes. I'm not trying to get SPDIF, analog audio will do just fine for me.

Everything is well, but there is a problem with the mixer, I believe. I can't control the volume, nor mute the sound! Not even from keyboard. Only way I can control the volume it to launch a shell and run alsamixer and set the volume on "Analog front".

I've tried the following audio settings:

- Output device "ALSA:default"
- Passt. output device "Default"
- Internal volume controls on
- Mixer "default"
- Mixer settings "Master"

and

- Output device "/dev/dsp"
- Passt. output device "Default"
- Internal volume controls on
- Mixer "/dev/mixer"
- Mixer settings "Master"

I also tried both configurations with mixer settings "PCM", to no avail. I did everything described in the CA0106 page of alsa-project.org. Could someone give me any hints on how to proceed?

Thanks in advance, once again!

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Jari-Matti

MBE&FE: GeForce MX440, Athlon XP 2000+, MSI KT333 Ultra, onboard audio, 512 MB, 2 x Technotrend T1500 DVB-T, LiteOn DVD±RW 16x DW1650-488C, Seagate 250 GB
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