The system in question has one user account and that
account is in the audio group. The errors do not look like the
traditional permission-related problems. Here is a sample of
what happens. It has never worked once since the wheezy
installation.
Script started on Tue 15 May 2012 05:29:48 AM CDT
martin@m:~$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
ALSA lib conf.c:1220:(parse_def) show is not a compound
ALSA lib conf.c:1686:(snd_config_load1) _toplevel_:24:26:Unexpected char
ALSA lib conf.c:3406:(config_file_open) /usr/share/alsa/pulse-alsa.conf may be
old or corrupted: consider to remove or fix it
card 0: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], device 0: Intel ICH [Intel ICH5]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], device 4: Intel ICH - IEC958 [Intel ICH5 - IEC958]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
martin@m:~$
martin@m:~$ exit
The card lookup was the correct information.
Script started on Tue 15 May 2012 05:31:24 AM CDT
root@m:~# aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], device 0: Intel ICH [Intel ICH5]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], device 4: Intel ICH - IEC958 [Intel ICH5 - IEC958]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
root@m:~# exit
Not only does it correctly find the card, but sound works.
mplayer works properly, playing sound files and internet radio.
As a normal user, mplayer produces many of the same
errors shown in the aplay -l command and fails to produce any
audio.
I ran strace -e trace=open,close,read,write and the good
trace wasn't all that much different from the bad trace.
Any idea as to what to look at next?
Thank you.
Martin McCormick
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