On Fri, 05 Nov 2021 23:19:13 +0100, Kip Warner wrote: > > On Fri, 2021-11-05 at 19:58 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > No, it contains the card entry. You can see it in alsa-info.sh output > > you attached, which is: > > I thought cards was supposed to be a directory populated with > something, but I see now that its a file containing the aforementioned. > > > Try to run like > > % aplay -Dplughw:1 -vv foo.wav > > > > If this works, the problem is rather the access via PulseAudio. > > Unfortunately it didn't: > > $ aplay -Dplughw:1 -vv /usr/share/games/lincity-ng/sounds/Water1.wav > ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1829:(_snd_pcm_hw_open) Invalid value for card > aplay: main:852: audio open error: No such file or directory > > $ aplay -l > aplay: device_list:276: no soundcards found... How about to run as root? Takashi