Frank: Try adding the option "--with-versioned=no" to the alsa-libs configure. That did the trick in terms of the sw params problem. With the default alsa.conf file, I can now get the speaker to make some noise. However, doing: speaker-test -r8000 -f1000 -FS8 -tsine -l5 gives me a slightly distorted sine wave that has a period of half of what I would expect. Frank, this is what I have for the small conf. I hope it is the right one: pcm.!default { type hw card 0 } pcm.hw { type hw card 0 device 0 subdevice 0 } ctl.!default { type hw card 0 } ctl.hw { type hw card 0 } ctl.w6811 { type hw card 0 } pcm.w6811 { type hw card 0 device 0 subdevice 0 } ctl.!default = ctl.w6811 pcm.!default = pcm.w6811 ctl.hw { @args[ CARD ] @args.CARD { type string default "0" } type hw card $CARD } pcm.hw { @args[ CARD DEV SUBDEV ] @args.CARD { type string default "0" } @args.DEV { type integer default 0 } @args.SUBDEV { type integer default 0 } type hw card $CARD device $DEV subdevice $SUBDEV } However, when I use this as the conf, I get the following with aplay -l /usr/share/alsa $ aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** ALSA lib conf.c:975:(parse_value) card is not a string ALSA lib conf.c:1588:(snd_config_load1) _toplevel_:45:1:Invalid argument ALSA lib conf.c:3066:(snd_config_update_r) /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf may be old or corrupted: consit aplay: device_list:213: control open (0): Invalid argument Not sure if I have the alsa.conf correct. So maybe it is a problem there. You mentioned a bare bones .conf, but I do not this is the only one I have in my email. Paul -- *************************************** Paul David Kavan Project Engineer GRH Electronics, Inc. 402-734-4900 pkavan@xxxxxxxxx *************************************** _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel