On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 7:14 PM, ailo <ailo.at@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 12/16/2010 12:26 AM, ailo wrote: >>> >>>>> Apart from the aplay -L result at the end I got a lot of this: >>>> >>>> that's not what we're looking for. it should open ~/.asoundrc >>>> if it doesn't show with that command, use >>>> >>>> strace -e trace=file aplay -L >>> >>> >> >> How can I make sure editing ~/.asoundrc has any effect? > > that is what we were doing. what is the output of: > > ls -l ~/.asoundrc also, check /etc/share/alsa/alsa.conf for this block of text, or something very much like it: @hooks [ { func load files [ "/etc/asound.conf" "~/.asoundrc" ] errors false } ] this is how ~/.asoundrc is loaded. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user