[gentoo-user] Re: new system, printing suddenly fails for all printers

[walt]

On 07/03/2009 08:48 AM, Alan E. Davis wrote:

> There is no PCM channel in alsamixer!  Maybe I will try alsamixergui,
> where I saw switches once.

Do you have something like this in /dev/snd?:

$ls -l /dev/snd
total 0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  0 2009-07-03 04:42 controlC0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 24 2009-07-03 04:42 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 16 2009-07-03 04:42 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 25 2009-07-03 04:42 pcmC0D1c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 17 2009-07-03 04:42 pcmC0D1p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  1 2009-07-03 04:42 seq
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 33 2009-07-03 04:42 timer

If not, maybe some kernel modules are not loaded or installed?