Thanks to Takashi, my nm256 driver no longer crashes on load. alsamixer now runs and looks OK.
But I can't get anything from aplay! $ aplay -v schubert.wav Playing WAVE 'schubert.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Mono aplay: pcm_params.c:781: snd_pcm_hw_param_set_near: Assertion `err >= 0' failed. Aborted... $ sox schubert.wav -t ossdsp /dev/dsp sox: Invalid audio buffer size 0 Here's my modules.conf: alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc alias usb-controller usb-uhci alias eth0 3c59x ## old OSS-Free driver # alias sound-slot-0 nm256 ## ALSA native device support alias char-major-116 snd options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 alias snd-card-0 snd-card-nm256 options snd-card-nm256 snd_index=0 snd_id="NeoMagic" \ snd_force_ac97=1 snd_buffer_top=0x27ec00 ## OSS emulation alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss Modules all seem to be loaded: $ lsmod Module Size Used by snd-pcm-oss 46432 0 (autoclean) snd-mixer-oss 11376 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss] ppp_async 6608 1 (autoclean) ppp_generic 17552 3 (autoclean) [ppp_async] slhc 4672 0 (autoclean) [ppp_generic] 3c59x 25440 1 (autoclean) snd-card-nm256 60928 0 snd-pcm 61632 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-card-nm256] snd-timer 12256 0 [snd-pcm] snd-ac97-codec 25248 0 [snd-card-nm256] snd 35152 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-card-nm256 snd-pcm My system: Dell Latitude CPi-A with neomagic 256-AV audio/video controller linux 2.4.14-pe (r. love's preemptible patch) alsa 0.9-beta from CVS today -- paul winkler home: http://www.slinkp.com music: http://www.reacharms.com calendars: http://www.calendargalaxy.com _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user