Thanks much for your help & suggestions, Mark, i'll do my best to follow up. Scary thought, supposing I end up being THE "expert" on MiaMIDI? :) (ok, some brave soul out there in virtual_snd land stand up & don't let this happen! :)) ) Henry On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 03:24 +1000, Mark Constable wrote: > On Monday 11 August 2008 02:27:55 Henry W. Peters wrote: > > I did a 'sudo lsmod | grep snd' &... > > ... > > snd_mia 31652 0 > > So the right module seems to be loaded yet you showed the output > of an "aplay -l" in a earlier email and there is only a single > SiS (onboard) device... > > > aplay -l > > **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** > > card 0: SI7012 [SiS SI7012], device 0: Intel ICH [SiS SI7012] > > Subdevices: 0/1 > > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 > > so if the kernel driver module (snd_mia) is loaded but the > aplay -l output does not show it then I would guess that it is > indeed a firmware issue. The only thing I can suggest now, as > I am no alsa expert and do not have the same card to test with, > is to check your alsa version and download the right firmware > and follow hints posted in a previous email (a link to a wiki > article). > > Also, consider joining the Ubuntu forums and search and ask > there as some of the google hits I saw pointed in that direction. > > --markc > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user