When I specify aplay -D hw:3 or -D hw:0,3 I get errors, if I just do aplay it works??? WHY? aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: VT1708B Analog [VT1708B Analog] Subdevices: 2/2 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 Subdevice #1: subdevice #1 card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: NVIDIA HDMI [NVIDIA HDMI] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 00:07.0 0403: 10de:0774 (rev a1) This is my audio device. aplay -D hw:3 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1429:(_snd_pcm_hw_open) Invalid value for card aplay: main:590: audio open error: No such file or directory [root@devgeisquad ~]# aplay -D hw:0,3 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono aplay: set_params:966: Channels count non available asound.conf is: # Set default sound card # Useful so that all settings can be changed to a different card here. pcm.snd_card { type hw card 0 device 3 } # Allow mixing of multiple output streams to this device pcm.output { type dmix ipc_key 1024 ipc_perm 0660 # Sound for everybody in your group! slave.pcm "snd_card" slave { # This stuff provides some fixes for latency issues. # buffer_size should be set for your audio chipset. period_time 0 period_size 1024 buffer_size 8192 } bindings { 0 0 1 1 } } # Allow reading from the default device. # Also known as record or capture. pcm.input { type dsnoop ipc_key 2048 slave.pcm "snd_card" ## Possible artsd full duplex fix: # slave { # period_time 0 # period_size 1024 # buffer_size 8192 # } bindings { 0 0 1 1 } } # This is what we want as our default device # a fully duplex (read/write) audio device. pcm.duplex { type asym playback.pcm "output" capture.pcm "input" } ################### # CONVERSION PLUG # ################### # Setting the default pcm device allows the conversion # rate to be selected on the fly. # duplex mode allows any alsa enabled app to read/write # to the dmix plug (Fixes a problem with wine). pcm.!default { type plug slave.pcm "duplex" } # Apparently this is wrong (breaks mplayer for me opening the device) #ctl.!default { # type plug # slave.pcm "snd_card" #} ######## # AOSS # ######## # OSS dsp0 device (OSS needs only output support, duplex will break some stuff) pcm.dsp0 { type plug slave.pcm "output" } # OSS control for dsp0 (needed?...this might not be useful) ctl.dsp0 { type plug slave.pcm "snd_card" } # OSS control for dsp0 (default old OSS is mixer0) ctl.mixer0 { type plug slave.pcm "snd_card" } ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user