> I'd like to ask you a few questions to help me establish in my own mind how > you have proceeded so far. > > Firstly, have you tried using the 'aplay -D hw:N,M' command followed by the > name of an LPCM wave file and tried various values to see if any choice of > N and M produce sound? > > e.g. does something like 'aplay -D hw:0,0 <wavefilename here> do nothing, > or does it give an error, or... ? This is the result bruno@CRONO:~$ aplay -D hw:0,0 sound.wav aplay: main:564: audio open error: No such file or directory bruno@CRONO:~$ aplay -D hw:0,1 sound.wav aplay: main:564: audio open error: No such file or directory bruno@CRONO:~$ aplay -D hw:1,0 sound.wav Playing WAVE 'sound.wav' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 11025 Hz, Mono aplay: set_params:918: Sample format non available bruno@CRONO:~$ aplay -D hw:1,1 sound.wav Playing WAVE 'sound.wav' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 11025 Hz, Mono aplay: set_params:918: Sample format non available > > Secondly, did you obtain the above results from a specific command or prog? > if so, what? I got these ouput with a ALSA team script http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh > > Thirdly, have you tried adding a simple section to your .asoundrc file to > explicitly define which card and device and the 'default' along with some > basic settings? e.g. I use > > pcm.!default { > type plug > slave { > pcm "hw:1" > channels 2 > format S24_3LE > } > } > > in my .asoundrc to specify that a specific device the system identifies as > hw:1 (and which expects the S24_3LE format) is to be used as default. Have > you tried that with various values for the "hw:", starting either with no > other entries for things like 'format' and then experimented on the basis > of the info you have? What is the command that said you what is *hw* number? > > I can't immediately diagnose your problem as I don't yet know enough. > Someone else may be able to do so! But replies to the above may help. Sure. I welcome your help. > > Afraid I am myself a learner, no expert on ALSA. But when I asked for help > here myself I noticed the tendency of others to simply say "use jack" or > "use pulse" or similar. Which to me seems not to help much if - like myself > - you actually want to understand and diagnose the problem, and have posted > on an ALSA list because you want to do this using ALSA! :-) I don't want and I can't install other distribution. I would like to resolve this problem, if I can, without removing system. > > Slainte, > > Jim > Thanks, Bruno. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
