Dear all, I wrote an alsa device driver for my arm_based platform. Then I cross compiled the alsa-lib-1.0.15, and build an application (static) with the lib. I build the driver in the kernel, so after the kernel booted, I can get these information:

# cat /proc/asound/version Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.14rc1 (Tue Jan 09 09:56:17 2007 UTC).

cat /proc/asound/devices 0: [ 0] : control 16: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback 24: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture 33: : timer

# cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [XYZ ]: XYZ - ARM XYZ at 0xc485e000 0xc4870000 irq 57

( I did not found /dev/snd or /dev/dsp )

But when I run the application, I got these errors: # /tmp/pcm_play_arm_s default ALSA lib pcm.c:2145:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default Playback open error: No such file or directory

I googled the Internet, and add two files manually :

# cat /etc/alsa/alsa.conf pcm.default{ type hw card 0 }

# cat ~/.asoundrc pcm.default { type hw card 0 }

But I still can not let the application to access the pcm device, this time I got the following information:

# /tmp/pcm_play_arm_s default cannot open audio device default (No such file or directory)

Here are my questions: 1, When we install the alsa-lib, we can get some libs, besides those, do we also get some config files according to the local linux environment and alsa-lib will use these config files to access the real driver? If that, how can I install the alsa-lib to a embedded platform directly or what config files should I port to embedded platform?

2, Must I edit ~/.asoundrc and /etc/alsa/alsa.conf ? In my situation, what should I do ? Is somebody so kind can give me a simple template?

Because I am a newbie in alsa world, I must make some mistakes, so I am lookinf forward to your advice.

Thanks in advance for your help.

David.