>ALSA lib conf.c:640:(snd_config_load) :6:5:Unexpected char >aplay: main:440: audio open error: Invalid argument > >Is alsa not seeing the card? I'm not sure at all what this means -- 1) you'd be better off on alsa-devel right now. 2) the error is in alsa-lib's parsing of your ~/.asoundrc file. >everything compiled and installed without trouble. What exactly does the >"passthru" utility do? Would it be helpful to me here? Any thoughts? the passthru utility simply turns on the card, but disables interrupts, and enables hardware monitoring for all channels. as a result, any incoming audio will be passed through to the output channels, with no load on the host CPU (though some small hit on the PCI bus, since the h/w will still copy the data into the DMA buffer). it won't help you here. --p
