Hallo, Tom Schutter hat gesagt: // Tom Schutter wrote: > But why does "aplay test.wav" give no sound at all?
Hhm. Normally aplay witouth any selected device plays over the device called "default" which is the same as "plughw:0" in the default configuration. So it *should* play, but doesn't. Does "aplay -Ddefault test.wav" play? > <rant> > I have spent hours trying to get sound to work, using aplay as my test. > No sound no matter what I do. It was not until I read the FAQ at > http://alsa.opensrc.org/faq/ that I even knew about "-Dfront". The man > page gave no hint about "-Dfront". No other page on the net about > setting up ALSA that I read mentions "-Dfront". With no "-D" option, > aplay does not give quite verbose messages. In fact the output to the > terminal from "aplay test.wav" and "aplay -Dplug:front test.wav" is > identical. > </rant> Ah, well, the missing documentation... ALSA is a really complex system and quite something else than the old OSS was. You can get a list of the defined devices with "aplay -L". This list can change though if you add something to an ~/.asoundrc (normally not needed). So it's a bit hard to document in a man page. In fact, the list of devices is really something in flux, so to say. But you're right: the predefined devises could need some better, centralized documentation. Ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
