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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Subject: Re: aplay: pcm_write:1025: write error &	SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_PREPAREfailed:device or resource busy
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 16:48:14 +0200
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At Mon, 2 Jun 2003 07:35:49 -0700,
Mark Knecht wrote:
> 
> >
> > anyway, in general, BIOS on some ASUS boards have a bug, and the first
> > PCM device won't work on them.
> >
> 
> Can I tell aplay to use any other PCM device? The second device? How might I
> do this?
> 
> aplay hw:1 sound.wav???

please use -D option, for example,

	% aplay -D hw:0,1 sound.wav

for the second pcm device.  the first 0 means the first "card" and you
cannot ommit it to specify the pcm device number.


Takashi


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