[alsa-devel] Opening (even read-only) of /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p says Operation not permitted

[Sathish Kumar Balasubramaniam -ERS, HCL Tech]

Ok. I found the issue.

Since the playback routing configuration is not set, it failed.
Once I set the playback routing configuration using amixer commands, aplay worked.


Regards,
B.Sathish Kumar

From: Sathish Kumar Balasubramaniam -ERS, HCL Tech
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2014 10:11 PM
To: 'alsa-devel at alsa-project.org'
Subject: Opening (even read-only) of /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p says Operation not permitted

Hi,

Please can anyone let me know how to debug more or fix the following issue

I tried to play a wav file using aplay. Its giving the following error

root at host# strace aplay a2002011001-e02.wav
execve("/usr/bin/aplay", ["aplay", "a2002011001-e02.wav"], [/* 15 vars */]) = 0
...
...
open("/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p", O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted)
close(3)                                = 0
write(2, "aplay: main:722: ", 17aplay: main:722: )       = 17
write(2, "audio open error: Operation not "..., 41audio open error: Operation not permitted) = 41
write(2, "\n", 1
)                       = 1


I tried to write a small program like the following

err = open("/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p", O_RDONLY);                              (I tried O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_CLOEXEC also)
printf("err = %d, errno = %s.\n", err, strerror(errno));

Even the above failed saying "err = -1, errno = Operation not permitted."

I am running these as user "root".

The following are my snd devices

root at host:~# ls -l /dev/snd/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root       60 Jan  1  1970 by-path
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  0 Jan  1  1970 controlC0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 24 Jan  1  1970 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 16 Jan  1  1970 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 33 Jan  1  1970 timer
root at host:~#

There is nothing present in my /etc/asound.conf
The following are few parameters in /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf

defaults.ctl.card 0
defaults.pcm.card 0
defaults.pcm.device 0
defaults.pcm.subdevice -1
defaults.pcm.nonblock 1
defaults.pcm.compat 0
defaults.pcm.minperiodtime 5000         # in us
defaults.pcm.ipc_key 5678293
defaults.pcm.ipc_gid audio
defaults.pcm.ipc_perm 0660
...
...


Regards,
B.Sathish Kumar


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