> And this is wrong. However, the strace from the previous email did not > find any custom ALSA configuration files that could affect the outcome. > Thus, I conclude that you, or maybe some stupid script that you ran, > modified some file in /usr/share/alsa in a bad way in the past. Please > reinstall alsa-lib (which may be known as libasound2 in some > Debian-based distributions). it's a year old raspbian installation with only mpd, lirc, lcdproc and now PA. IFAIK I did not run programs/scripts as the root user on this device which could modify the alsa configuration. I will reinstall all alsa packages as you said, but they were already the default files. > Or, please tar up the whole /usr/share/alsa directory and send the > tarball here, and I'll look what exactly is damaged there. ok, I will send you directly.