On Sunday 30 July 2006 08:48, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [...] > sound. my spiffy new board has a via vt8233 sound chip, and I can't > get alsa up and running. Alsaconf sees the chipset and claims to have > configured it, but > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ aplay music/You\ Shook\ Me.mp3 > ALSA lib confmisc.c:670:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find card '0' > ALSA lib conf.c:3479:(_snd_config_evaluate) function > snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such device > ALSA lib confmisc.c:391:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings > ALSA lib conf.c:3479:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat > returned error: No such device > ALSA lib confmisc.c:1070:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name > ALSA lib conf.c:3479:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer > returned error: No such device > ALSA lib conf.c:3947:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such > device > ALSA lib pcm.c:2146:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default > aplay: main:547: audio open error: No such device > [...]
Try aplay -L to list all PCMs, and if there are several, try specifying them with aplay -D [$DEVICE]. If one works, you can make it the default with a ~.asoundrc or /etc/asound.conf file. HTH, John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]