trying to launch alsamixer

ALSA lib conf.c:594:(get_char_skip_comments) Cannot access file !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"
ALSA lib conf.c:1589:(snd_config_load1) _toplevel_:1:121:No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:2850:(snd_config_hook_load) /etc/asound.conf may be old or corrupted: consider to remove or fix it
ALSA lib conf.c:2714:(snd_config_hooks_call) function snd_config_hook_load returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:3079:(snd_config_update_r) hooks failed, removing configuration

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory