alsa problems

[Aaron Howell]

Sorry, I joined this conversation rather late but,
What are you trying to play the file with?
If the program is trying to output via the oss (standard linux) sound driver,
rather than specifically to alsa,
then the problem is that you haven't configured alsa with OSS emulation, or, you've forgotten to load the oss emulation modules
snd-pcm-oss is the main one, and snd-mixer-oss if you want oss mixing functionality too.
This would explain your messages about /dev/audio and /dev/dsp (which are oss devices, not alsa devices, not being accessible).
Hope that helps.
Regards
Aaron
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 07:36:26PM -0500, Alex Snow wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I atached a script of the lsmod command after I tried playing a file.
> 
> --
> A message from the system administrator: "I've upped my priority, now up yours!"

> Script started on Fri Feb  7 19:32:51 2003
> root at chris:~# lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
> snd-emu10k1            56272   0 
> snd-pcm                51488   0  [snd-emu10k1]
> snd-timer               9928   0  [snd-pcm]
> snd-hwdep               3168   0  [snd-emu10k1]
> snd-util-mem            1056   0  [snd-emu10k1]
> snd-rawmidi            10944   0  [snd-emu10k1]
> snd-seq-device          3652   0  [snd-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi]
> snd-ac97-codec         27048   0  [snd-emu10k1]
> snd                    23716   0  [snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-hwdep snd-util-mem snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec]
> soundcore               3236   0 
> pcmcia_core            40896   0 
> ide-scsi                7456   0 
> 3c59x                  24648   1 
> root at chris:~# exit
> Script done on Fri Feb  7 19:33:05 2003