On Fri, 1 Oct 2010, Stas Sergeev wrote:
Sorry for bothering you again, but I think even now it is not all that good. :)
$ aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: Dummy [Dummy], device 0: Dummy PCM [Dummy PCM] Subdevices: 8/8 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 Subdevice #1: subdevice #1 Subdevice #2: subdevice #2 Subdevice #3: subdevice #3 Subdevice #4: subdevice #4 Subdevice #5: subdevice #5 Subdevice #6: subdevice #6 Subdevice #7: subdevice #7 card 2: STx7100 [STx7109 audio subsystem], device 0: [PCM player #0 (HDMI)] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 2: STx7100 [STx7109 audio subsystem], device 1: [PCM player #1] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 2: STx7100 [STx7109 audio subsystem], device 2: [SPDIF player (HDMI)] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
$ aplay -L null Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture) default:CARD=Dummy Dummy, Dummy PCM Default Audio Device default:CARD=STx7100 STx7109 audio subsystem, PCM player #0 (HDMI) Default Audio Device
The Dummy and STx7109 devices does not have appropriate configuration files in /usr/share/alsa/cards tree and namehint does not list hw: like devices by default. Use "defaults.namehint.showall=1" in your configuration file (~/.asoundrc).
Jaroslav
----- Jaroslav Kysela perex@perex.cz Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer ALSA Project, Red Hat, Inc.