I already posted on LAU, and they sent me here. The below illustrates the problem. I'm new to this list, so I would appreciate any help and I apologise in advance for any breaches of etiquette. Hi, anyone, Sorry if this is annoying, I just don't get what to do. $ cat /dev/random > /dev/dsp does nothing. killall artsd followed by $play file.wav yields output where play seems to eb playing the file, but nothing is coming out. The file seems to "play" but once it gets to 190 kB, it stops without error message. The file itself is many meg long and plays fine on other systems. Relevant output from lspci yielded 00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 03) 00:08.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy Game Port (rev 03) 00:08.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port Relevant from lsmod snd_emu10k1_synth 8192 0 snd_emux_synth 35456 1 snd_emu10k1_synth snd_seq_virmidi 7936 1 snd_emux_synth snd_seq_midi_emul 7680 1 snd_emux_synth snd_emu10k1 121248 4 snd_emu10k1_synth snd_ac97_codec 98336 1 snd_emu10k1 ac97_bus 3200 1 snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm_oss 44544 0 snd_mixer_oss 17408 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm 79876 4 snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss snd_page_alloc 10888 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm snd_util_mem 5760 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1 snd_hwdep 9988 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1 snd_seq_dummy 4740 0 snd_seq_oss 32896 0 snd_seq_midi 9600 0 snd_rawmidi 25472 3 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1,snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event 8448 3 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi snd_seq 52592 9 snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event snd_timer 23684 3 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm,snd_seq snd_seq_device 9100 8 snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq via_agp 11264 1 serio_raw 7940 0 via686a 17416 0 i2c_isa 6272 1 via686a i2c_viapro 10132 0 snd 54020 18 snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_hwdep,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device Kernel version is 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux I'm running Kubuntu Feisty. Now, the soundcard still works on my other partition which is Dapper; on Feisty we have 0 [Audigy ]: Audigy - Audigy 1 [SB0090] Audigy 1 [SB0090] (rev.3, serial:0x531102) at 0xcc00, irq 11 which is identical to dapper. I know I've posted beforut this but I've no idea what exactly is wrong. Apps say sound is going to the soundcard, but nothign comes out. If no-one replies, I'll leave it. I won't post again on this topic. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user