Re: No sound from SB live!

[Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>]

On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 22:49 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > > I run Ubuntu Breezy, which has:
> > > 
> > > alsa-utils = 1.0.9a-4ubuntu5 
> > 
> > The alsa-utils version should not matter, it's alsa-lib that must be
> > kept in sync with the ALSA version in the kernel.
> 
> I tried to play with mpg123 using OSS emulation, so that it does not
> have anything to do with ALSA. No luck. Trying aplay:
> 
> root@hobit:/dev/snd#  aplay
> /usr/share/xemacs21/xemacs-packages/etc/sounds/hammer.wav
> aplay: main:533: audio open error: No such file or directory
> 
> while stracing:
> 
> open("/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p", O_RDWR)       = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
> directory)
> close(3)                                = 0
> write(2, "aplay: main:533: ", 17aplay: main:533: )       = 17
> write(2, "audio open error: No such file o"..., 43audio open error: No
> such file or directory) = 43
> write(2, "\n", 1
> 
> ... but pcmC0D0p is not described in devices.txt...?

Hmm, that's a udev problem or something.  If you have a static dev the
snddevices script that comes with ALSA will create the device files.

Lee