On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 08:08:41PM -0500, Paul Davis wrote: > 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. Hmm. There is no such file as /etc/share/alsa/alsa.conf. I think you mean /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf, which does indeed have this block. -ken _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user