On Sat February 9 2008 22:14:55 Aaron Konstam wrote: > Scince no one has solved the global f8 sound problem for me let me try > to get an answer to a part of the problem. > > The system seems to be tring to locate sound card 0. > On my system /proc/asound/cards returns: > 0 [CS4236B ]: CS4236B - CS4236B > CS4236B at 0x534, irq 5, dma 1&3 > or example > Which seems to imply that the CS42368 is sound card 0. So what could be > going wrong. > > For example, running: > > mplayer "mms://ac1.streaming.net.nz/tarana1" > > Returns lines like these: > [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0' > [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:3510:(_snd_config_evaluate) function > snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such device > [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating > strings > [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:3510:(_snd_config_evaluate) function > snd_func_concat returned error: No such device > [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating > name > [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:3510:(_snd_config_evaluate) function > snd_func_refer returned error: No such device > [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:3982:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No > such device > [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm.c:2145:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM > default > [AO_ALSA] Playback open error: No such device > Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound. > Audio: no sound > Video: no video > > What are these errors telling me? > Well your sound is broken, :-) No seriously do you have any references to sound modules in modprobe.conf?, have you tried running the sound card configurator system-config-soundcard?, pulseaudio & kde has never worked for me anywhere so I'd avoid that. try this if you have sdl $ mplayer -ao sdl mms://ac1.streaming.net.nz/tarana1 ...dex
