Problem with ALSAMIXER

Hi Team,

Am trying to open alsamixer via command line but am getting the following error.

 [root @pc12] $ alsamixer
Home directory /home/root not ours.
ALSA lib pulse.c:229:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused

cannot open mixer: Connection refused

Even am opening as root user but stills it shows connection refused. Whats wrong with that?? Suggest me any idea to over come this..
Also i need to play sounds using aplay.. But getting same problem.. :wink:

Are you actually using pulseaudio?

Yes I'm....