Re: list spam, reinstall and sound issues

[John O'Hagan <johnohagan@iprimus.com.au>]

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
>
> andrew@basement:~$ 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