Re: Problem in testing ALSA

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

On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 20:37 -0700, Chow Raymond wrote:
> --- Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > No, that probably just means that the default pcm is
> > not defined.  This
> > is actually a userspace (alsa-lib) problem, it
> > sounds like the kernel
> > side might be OK.
> 
> I don't get it. Default pcm is not defined? How do i
> define it then? Does it mean that aplay cannot find
> the appropriate libraries? Besides, I do not know how
> to configure my /etc/modules.conf too since Im using
> Compulab ArmCore board. There is no built in
> soundcard. It only has built in AC97 codec.

See /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.  Some devices can define their own
default PCM in /usr/share/alsa/cards/*.  But I have no idea how the AC97
codec on ARM fits into this scheme.

Try aplay -D hw:0,0 file.wav.  And make sure alsa-lib is installed
properly.

Lee



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