[alsa-devel] can not access the alsa driver

[Adrian McMenamin]

On 06/01/2008, Joachim Foerster <mls.JOFT at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 22:42 +0800, Ning Zhang wrote:
> > ( 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
>
> Well, I think, the /dev/snd/* devices files have to exist. Do you use
> udevd? If not, I guess you have to create these files manually - or by
> using the snddevices script in alsa-driver package.
> If you use udevd, then - perhaps - your are missing some rules files
> (/etc/udev/rules.d). Have a look at your Linux distributions rules files
> of your host PC.
>
> > 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?
>
> I cannot really say something about your questions - I hadn't to create
> any special config. files, when I started using my own driver (for a
> PPC405 based board (ML403)). I just cross-compiled and installed
> alsa-lib and alsa-tools (to have aplay and arecord).
>
Any chance you could publish your configuration here?