Hello, I am having a problem with my soundcard, obviously, here is what I have: lspci reports: 00:05.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio (rev a2) 02:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device aa10 I am not sure where the ATI device is coming from. I have installed the latest alsa-driver, alsa-lib and alsa-utils. All of them built cleanly. lsmod reports: snd_hda_intel 277364 0 snd_pcm 75276 1 snd_hda_intel snd_timer 23176 1 snd_pcm snd 50404 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 8096 1 snd snd_page_alloc 10568 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm So far everything "looks" right to me, but I am not sure if it is correct. Here is what I get when I try to play a mp3: mpg123 Dire\ Straits\ -\ Sultans\ Of\ Swing.mp3 High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2, and 3. Version 0.59q (2002/03/23). Written and copyrights by Joe Drew. Uses code from various people. See 'README' for more! THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! Title : Sultans Of Swing Artist: Dire Straits Album : Year : Comment: Genre : Rock Playing MPEG stream from Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing.mp3 ... MPEG 1.0 layer III, 128 kbit/s, 44100 Hz joint-stereo ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0' ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib conf.c:3985:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory ALSA lib pcm.c:2144:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default ALSA snd_pcm_open error: No such file or directory Can't find a suitable libao driver. (Is device in use?) And here again I try to specify alsa and the device: mpg123 -o alsa -a default:NVidia Dire\ Straits\ -\ Sultans\ Of\ Swing.mp3 High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2, and 3. Version 0.59q (2002/03/23). Written and copyrights by Joe Drew. Uses code from various people. See 'README' for more! THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! Title : Sultans Of Swing Artist: Dire Straits Album : Year : Comment: Genre : Rock Playing MPEG stream from Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing.mp3 ... MPEG 1.0 layer III, 128 kbit/s, 44100 Hz joint-stereo Can't open libao driver with device default (is device in use?) As far as I can tell the driver is not in use but how can I tell for sure? The card is in /proc: cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [NVidia ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia HDA NVidia at 0xfe024000 irq 16 At this point I am lost as to what to try next. Can anybody give me some help or some ideas on what to try next? Thanks for any help, Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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