I have been unable to any of the utilities included in alsa-utils including amixer alsamixer aplay for the last several releases of ALSA 0.9.0X versions. Each time, I have had very similar failures. I will describe my encountered using the newly released ALSA 0.9.0rc6 version.
I was able to compile and install alsa-driver and alsa-lib however I was not able to compile the complete alsa-utils. The build process did complete the building of amixer alsamixer and alsactl however the process failed while building play. The error list included at bottom of post. During previous versions of ALSA I was able to compile aplay, however I was still never able to use it. I build and installed the libraries using the buildrpm script, which worked very well. For my system only RPM controlled files are allowed in /usr/lib/ other libs belong in /usr/local/lib . For this test I loaded the snd-dummy drivers into the kernel. When I use the snd-trident drivers I get the same results. I'm using the dummy drivers to eliminate the possibility that I am running into a hardware configuration problem. Here are my results >cd /usr/local/src/alsa-utils-0.9.0rc6/ >amixer/amixer scontents amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such file or directory >amixer/amixer --card 0 scontents amixer: Mixer attach hw:0 error: No such file or directory >alsamixer/alsamixer alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory >alsamixer/alsamixer -c 0 alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for hw:0: No such file or directory >su >alsactl/alsactl store alsactl/alsactl: save_state:1047: No soundcards found... >alsactl/alsactl store 0 alsactl/alsactl: get_controls:486: snd_ctl_open error: No such file or directory *** relivent data *** alsa-driver-0.9.0rc6 alsa-lib-0.9.0rc6 alsa-utils-0.9.0rc6 alsa-oss-0.9.0rc1 $ modprobe snd-dummy $ modprobe snd-pcm-oss $ modprobe snd-mixer-oss $ lsmod Module Size Used by snd-pcm-oss 38788 0 (unused) snd-mixer-oss 10304 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-dummy 3808 0 (unused) snd-pcm 57056 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-dummy] snd-timer 9856 0 [snd-pcm] snd 24712 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-dummy snd-pcm snd-timer] soundcore 3684 3 [snd] [snip] note: the last 3 modprobe commands did not generate any dmegs or /var/log messages $ rpm -ql alsa-lib | grep libasound /usr/lib/libasound.la /usr/lib/libasound.so /usr/lib/libasound.so.2 /usr/lib/libasound.so.2.0.0 $ cat /etc/modules.conf [snip] # ALSA portion # alias snd-card-0 snd-ens1371 # alias snd-card-0 snd-trident alias snd-card-0 snd-dummy # OSS/Free portion - card #1 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss $ cd /usr/local/src/alsa-utils-0.9.0rc6 $ ./configure [snip] $ make [snip] aplay.c:818: too many arguments to function `snd_pcm_hw_params_get_period_size' aplay.c:819: too many arguments to function `snd_pcm_hw_params_get_buffer_size' aplay.c:825: too many arguments to function `snd_pcm_sw_params_get_xfer_align' make[1]: *** [aplay.o] Error 1 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user