Turns out the problem had nothing to do with my earlier guesses. Running an strace on aplay showed that even though alsa-lib and alsa-utils were compiled/installed with the default "prefix" (/usr), the utilities were looking for alsa.conf, etc. under /usr/local for some reason. Anyway, I symlinked the directory and all seems to be working. Ed ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel