30.10.2014 15:43, mailing lists wrote: > open("/usr/share/alsa/pcm/dmix.conf", O_RDONLY) = 4 That's normal as long as the devices contained there are not actually opened and as long as no new devices are created that use the dmix plugin. To debug the issue, I need the output of these two commands: aplay -vv -d 1 -f cd -D hw:0 /dev/zero aplay -vv -d 1 -f cd -D front:0 /dev/zero -- Alexander E. Patrakov