On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 18:50, Frank Barknecht wrote: > 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.
I had added /etc/asound.conf as per directions that I found at: http://www.wlug.org.nz/NForce2Notes This asound.conf changed the default PCM device to use the S/PDIF output, which I am not using. At the time that I added it, I had another set of problems that prevented me from getting sound. After removing /etc/asound.conf, aplay now works! After going through this experience, I think one resource that is missing is a trouble shooting guide (or maybe I just didn't find it). A number of items in http://alsa.opensrc.org/faq/ cover some of the issues, and are a start, but an official trouble shooting guide would be better. Thanks for all of the help! -- Tom Schutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------- 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
