At Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:00:13 +0000 (UTC), User wrote: > > > I'm suggesting that instead of aplay -l that you look in /proc/asound > > instead: aplay requires a lot of things to be working before it reports > > anything at all. /proc/asound will be there even if nothing works and > > will certainly include useful information even when aplay doesn't do > > anything useful. > > Have posted contents of asound in this thread bottom. > Seems ALL is OK. but aplay fails to open the /dev node > > > > It's not bias, it's a question of using what is known to work. Note > > that among other things, udev handles the cases where the major and > > minor numbers for a device aren't fixed. You may or may not be falling > > foul of this. > > Well, shure it works but it is not a needed stuff. > > About more than a decade without it and ALSA was PERFECT - really. > JACK+ALSA was a combination without much trouble. > > If UDEV is causing this problem..... hmmmm I can not be shure so far. > > The kernel driver seems to me the cause - WHY it can open the /dev node > in version 2.6x but **not** in version(s) 3.x ? > It is the same device node, same perm, same MAJOR/MINOR... identical. > > That is my/the problem... driving me nuts :) > The driver internals changed quite a bit. Make sure that you do *not* set CONFIG_SND_DYNAMIC_MINORS=y. If this option is set, the dynamic device file assignment like udev becomes mandatory. BTW, this option is forcibly set if you have CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_HDMI=y because HDMI requires more PCM devices than the static devices may have. Takashi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user