Frank, Thank you for responding. > what do you get, if you do "aplay -Dplughw:1 somefile.wav" It says: $ aplay -Dplughw:1 test.wav Playing WAVE 'test.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo However, I get no sound from my device. > If you don't get sound, then maybe there's some error message in > /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog? /var/log/syslog didn't have anything sound related. The only thing I could determine was sound related in /var/log/messages was: Apr 22 08:50:56 media-server kernel: [ 22.092393] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0 Apr 22 08:50:56 media-server kernel: [ 22.092430] EISA: Detected 0 cards. Detecting 0 cards probably isn't good. But I didn't see anything that clearly said anything about USB, sound, or ALSA. Is there something else I can try? -- Dave M G Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn Kernel 2.6.20-15-generic Pentium D Dual Core Processor ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user