You arfe trying to access using OSS. Try using direct alsa first., Ie, what happens if you use aplay or arecord. Once you have also worink you can figure out why oss emulation is not owrking ( eg because you forgot to load the oss emulation drivers) What does alsamixer show? On Tue, 31 Aug 2010, Vladislav Rafael wrote: > I need help with the sound on our appliance. We are compiling the kernel (2.6.32.4) with the alsa and the drivers configured as built -in. > when the kernel is starting it loads the driver (Intel HDA) and recognizes the sound card successfully (VIA VT82xx). > > All the relevant devices appear (under /dev and under /proc). I can see IRQ 17 assigned to the sound. > However when trying to play a sound I get an Invalid Argument error. > > It seems that the ioctl commands on the device return EINVAL. > The dmesg command shows the following messages: > > ALSA sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c:871: No usable accesses > ALSA sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c:871: No usable accesses > ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1096: hda_codec_cleanup_stream: NID=0x10 > ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1096: hda_codec_cleanup_stream: NID=0x11 > ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1096: hda_codec_cleanup_stream: NID=0x12 > ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1096: hda_codec_cleanup_stream: NID=0x13 > > Does anybody have any idea what can be the problem? > > Thanks -- William G. Unruh | Canadian Institute for| Tel: +1(604)822-3273 Physics&Astronomy | Advanced Research | Fax: +1(604)822-5324 UBC, Vancouver,BC | Program in Cosmology | unruh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Canada V6T 1Z1 | and Gravity | www.theory.physics.ubc.ca/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user