Hi Christophe, i agree w/ you -- oss modules aren't needed for alsa apps. since aplay produces an error message, the primary problem is with your alsa installation, not your external connections, etc.
i don't understand why aplay doesn't find your card either. just a guess, but did you run ./snddevices out of the alsa-driver directory? what about your kernel -- is it configured with soundcore as a module and no other sound drivers selected? btw, what version of alsa-drivers are you using? patrick ps: i'm running Alsa0.9.0beta8a and found a bit of code in ~/alsa/utils/aplay/aplay.c that generates your error. i'm guessing your version of alsa has something similar. maybe this would be helpful ? are your alsa-utils and alsa-libs up-to-date with your driver? *************** 177 static void device_list(void) 178 { 179 snd_ctl_t *handle; 180 int card, err, dev, idx; 181 snd_ctl_card_info_t *info; 182 snd_pcm_info_t *pcminfo; 183 snd_ctl_card_info_alloca(&info); 184 snd_pcm_info_alloca(&pcminfo); 185 186 card = -1; 187 if (snd_card_next(&card) < 0 || card < 0) { 188 error("no soundcards found..."); <<<======* 189 return; 190 } 191 while (card >= 0) { .. .. .. ******************** serveur:/lib/modules/2.4.16/misc# cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [card1 ]: SBAWE - Sound Blaster AWE32/64 Sound Blaster 16 at 0x220, irq 5, dma 1&5 but when i run aplay : serveur:/lib/modules/2.4.16/misc# aplay-0.5 -l Aplay: no soundcards found... What is the problem ? thank you _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user