Lennart, Well, this didn't work: aplay -D iec958:CARD=CMI8738MC8,DEV=0 -v -f cd < /dev/urandom But this does: aplay -D iec958:CARD=CMI8768,DEV=0 -v -f cd < /dev/urandom as does this: aplay -D iec958:0 -v -f cd < /dev/urandom For both of the above cases to work, I had to throw a swith in alsamixer to get the sound out. However, both: device=iec958:CARD=CMI8768,DEV=0 and device=iec958:0 in default.pa result in: lroom# pulseaudio --system -v I: core-util.c: Successfully gained nice level -11. I: main.c: Found user 'pulse' (UID 499) and group 'pulse' (GID 499). I: main.c: Successfully dropped root privileges. W: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted W: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not permitted I: main.c: Page size is 4096 bytes I: main.c: Dude, your kernel stinks! The chef's recommendation today is Linux with high-resolution timers enabled! ALSA lib conf.c:3949:(snd_config_expand) Unknown parameters 0 ALSA lib pcm.c:2145:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM iec958:0 E: alsa-util.c: Error opening PCM device iec958:0: Invalid argument E: module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-sink" (argument: "device=iec958:0"): initialization failed. E: main.c: Module load failed. E: main.c: failed to initialize daemon. I: main.c: Daemon terminated. Jim Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Thu, 27.03.08 13:23, Jim Duda (jim at duda.tzo.com) wrote: > >> Lennart, >> >> No go, I get: >> >> lroom# vi /etc/pulse/default.pa >> lroom# pulseaudio --system -v >> I: core-util.c: Successfully gained nice level -11. >> I: main.c: Found user 'pulse' (UID 499) and group 'pulse' (GID 499). >> I: main.c: Successfully dropped root privileges. >> W: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted >> W: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not permitted >> I: main.c: Page size is 4096 bytes >> I: main.c: Dude, your kernel stinks! The chef's recommendation today is Linux with high-resolution timers enabled! >> ALSA lib conf.c:3949:(snd_config_expand) Unknown parameters CARD=CMI8738MC8,DEV=0 >> ALSA lib pcm.c:2145:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM iec958:CARD=CMI8738MC8,DEV=0 >> E: alsa-util.c: Error opening PCM device iec958:CARD=CMI8738MC8,DEV=0: Invalid argument >> E: module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-sink" (argument: "device=iec958:CARD=CMI8738MC8,DEV=0"): initialization >> failed. >> E: main.c: Module load failed. >> E: main.c: failed to initialize daemon. >> I: main.c: Daemon terminated. > > There's something seriously wrong with your ALSA installtion as it > seems. > > Does this work? > > aplay -D iec958:CARD=CMI8738MC8,DEV=0 -v -f cd < /dev/urandom > > Do you hear any noise? > > If not, then this is an ALSA problem, not related to PA. Please > contact ALSA upstream in this case. > > Lennart >
