Clemens wrote:
You should replace "hw" with "plughw" in the device name.
So you were referring to:
% aplay -L plughw:CARD=Orpheus,DEV=0 Orpheus, Orpheus PCM Hardware device with all software conversions
Any error message in the system log?
% tail dmesg?.txt
==> dmesg1.txt <== this is just after booting.
[ 21.439026] r8169 0000:02:00.0 eth0: link down [ 23.809013] r8169 0000:02:00.0 eth0: link up
==> dmesg2.txt <== this is just after connecting Orpheus.
[ 21.439026] r8169 0000:02:00.0 eth0: link down [ 23.809013] r8169 0000:02:00.0 eth0: link up [ 110.079264] firewire_core 0000:08:00.0: phy config: new root=ffc1, gap_count=5 [ 110.343319] firewire_core 0000:08:00.0: phy config: new root=ffc1, gap_count=5 [ 110.580310] firewire_core 0000:08:00.0: created device fw1: GUID 00119800010001f9, S400 [ 113.660273] snd-bebob fw1.0: Detect discontinuity of CIP: 00 08
==> dmesg3.txt <== this is just after % aplay -D plughw:2,0 test.wav
[ 21.439026] r8169 0000:02:00.0 eth0: link down [ 23.809013] r8169 0000:02:00.0 eth0: link up [ 110.079264] firewire_core 0000:08:00.0: phy config: new root=ffc1, gap_count=5 [ 110.343319] firewire_core 0000:08:00.0: phy config: new root=ffc1, gap_count=5 [ 110.580310] firewire_core 0000:08:00.0: created device fw1: GUID 00119800010001f9, S400 [ 113.660273] snd-bebob fw1.0: Detect discontinuity of CIP: 00 08 [ 128.010593] snd-bebob fw1.0: Detect discontinuity of CIP: 00 08 [ 133.416998] snd-bebob fw1.0: Detect discontinuity of CIP: 00 08 [ 136.275142] snd-bebob fw1.0: Detect discontinuity of CIP: 50 70 [ 137.654178] snd-bebob fw1.0: Detect discontinuity of CIP: 70 90
% ls -l dmesg?.txt -rw-rw-r-- 1 user1 user1 72728 Apr 24 08:42 dmesg1.txt -rw-rw-r-- 1 user1 user1 73050 Apr 24 08:42 dmesg2.txt -rw-rw-r-- 1 user1 user1 73318 Apr 24 08:43 dmesg3.txt
% egrep 'Apr 24 08:42|Apr 24 08:43' /var/log/syslog
Apr 24 08:42:24 host gnome-session[1466]: WARN 2015-04-24 08:42:24 unity.dash.gsettingsscopereader GSettingsScopes.cpp:108 Error fetching protocol metadata for scope: social.scope : Valid key file could not be found in search dirs Apr 24 08:42:44 host kernel: [ 110.079264] firewire_core 0000:08:00.0: phy config: new root=ffc1, gap_count=5 Apr 24 08:42:45 host kernel: [ 110.343319] firewire_core 0000:08:00.0: phy config: new root=ffc1, gap_count=5 Apr 24 08:42:45 host kernel: [ 110.580310] firewire_core 0000:08:00.0: created device fw1: GUID 00119800010001f9, S400 Apr 24 08:42:48 host kernel: [ 113.660273] snd-bebob fw1.0: Detect discontinuity of CIP: 00 08 Apr 24 08:43:02 host kernel: [ 128.010593] snd-bebob fw1.0: Detect discontinuity of CIP: 00 08 Apr 24 08:43:08 host kernel: [ 133.416998] snd-bebob fw1.0: Detect discontinuity of CIP: 00 08 Apr 24 08:43:11 host rtkit-daemon[1163]: Supervising 4 threads of 1 processes of 1 users. Apr 24 08:43:11 host rtkit-daemon[1163]: Successfully made thread 1900 of process 1540 (n/a) owned by '1000' RT at priority 5. Apr 24 08:43:11 host rtkit-daemon[1163]: Supervising 5 threads of 1 processes of 1 users. Apr 24 08:43:11 host kernel: [ 136.275142] snd-bebob fw1.0: Detect discontinuity of CIP: 50 70 Apr 24 08:43:12 host kernel: [ 137.654178] snd-bebob fw1.0: Detect discontinuity of CIP: 70 90 Apr 24 08:43:14 host pulseaudio[1540]: [alsa-source-BeBoB] alsa-util.c: Could not recover from POLLERR|POLLNVAL|POLLHUP and XRUN: Connection timed out Apr 24 08:43:17 host systemd[1]: Stopping User Manager for UID 112...
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Any clues?
Mike Ood -- % uname -a Linux host 3.19.0-15-generic #15-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 16 23:32:37 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux --