Hi all, geting my sound card work has been confusing for me. There are many forum threads, but none helps. More, maybe i've messed up with the good config part following those instructions, who knows ... Can somebody tell me a "linear" step-by-step method of configuring/testing a sound card? In my Linux box i do: root% aplay -vv song.wma ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:864:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave aplay: main:550: audio open error: Device or resource busy My system: Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch1 root% cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#* | grep Codec Codec: Generic 11c1 Si3054 Codec: Analog Devices AD1986A root% lspci | grep Audio 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SB450 HDA Audio (rev 01) root% lshw ... description: Audio device product: SB450 HDA Audio vendor: ATI Technologies Inc physical id: 14.2 bus info: pci@00:14.2 version: 01 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: bus_master cap_list configuration: driver=HDA Intel latency=64 resources: iomemory:d0400000-d0403fff irq:209 root% lsmod|grep ^snd snd_hda_intel 17332 1 snd_hda_codec 137856 1 snd_hda_intel snd_pcm_oss 38368 1 snd_mixer_oss 15200 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm 68676 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 20996 1 snd_pcm snd 47012 6 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer snd_page_alloc 10184 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm Many questions like this can be found, but no solution (at least for me). Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user