Re: list spam, reinstall and sound issues

2006-07-31 Thread John O'Hagan 
On Sunday 30 July 2006 08:48, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
[...]
 sound. my spiffy new board has a via vt8233 sound chip, and I can't
 get alsa up and running. Alsaconf sees the chipset and claims to have
 configured it, but

 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ aplay music/You\ Shook\ Me.mp3
 ALSA lib confmisc.c:670:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find card '0'
 ALSA lib conf.c:3479:(_snd_config_evaluate) function
 snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such device
 ALSA lib confmisc.c:391:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
 ALSA lib conf.c:3479:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat
 returned error: No such device
 ALSA lib confmisc.c:1070:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
 ALSA lib conf.c:3479:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer
 returned error: No such device
 ALSA lib conf.c:3947:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such
 device
 ALSA lib pcm.c:2146:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
 aplay: main:547: audio open error: No such device

[...]

Try aplay -L to list all PCMs, and if there are several, try specifying them 
with aplay -D [$DEVICE]. If one works, you can make it the default with a 
~.asoundrc or /etc/asound.conf file. 

HTH,

John


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Re: list spam, reinstall and sound issues

2006-07-31 Thread Andrew Sackville-West 
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 08:16:02PM +1000, John O'Hagan wrote:
 On Sunday 30 July 2006 08:48, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
 [...]
  sound. my spiffy new board has a via vt8233 sound chip, and I can't
  get alsa up and running. Alsaconf sees the chipset and claims to have
  configured it, but
 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ aplay music/You\ Shook\ Me.mp3
  ALSA lib confmisc.c:670:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find card '0'
  ALSA lib conf.c:3479:(_snd_config_evaluate) function
  snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such device
  ALSA lib confmisc.c:391:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
  ALSA lib conf.c:3479:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat
  returned error: No such device
  ALSA lib confmisc.c:1070:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
  ALSA lib conf.c:3479:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer
  returned error: No such device
  ALSA lib conf.c:3947:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such
  device
  ALSA lib pcm.c:2146:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
  aplay: main:547: audio open error: No such device
 
 [...]
 
 Try aplay -L to list all PCMs, and if there are several, try specifying them 
 with aplay -D [$DEVICE]. If one works, you can make it the default with a 
 ~.asoundrc or /etc/asound.conf file. 

damn, sometimes I amaze myself. solved with a `adduser andrew
audio`. crap. this is why one should never reinstall...

A


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