Sharon Kimble wrote:
> I have a brand new computer, only 3 days old now, and am unable to run
> mpd on it due to problems with ALSA. Some details to follow;-
>
> cat /proc/asound/version
> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.

This isn't brand new.

> cat /proc/asound/cards
>  0 [Generic        ]: HDA-Intel - HD-Audio Generic
>                       HD-Audio Generic at 0xfeb44000 irq 43
>  1 [Generic_1      ]: HDA-Intel - HD-Audio Generic
>                       HD-Audio Generic at 0xfeb40000 irq 16

One is the GPU's HDMI output, the other is the onboard device.

> Running 'alsamixer' as root shows that the default sound card is
> HD-audio generic, Chip ATI R6xx HDMI Item S/PDIF
>
> Jan 09 13:28 : mixer: Failed to read mixer for 'My ALSA Device': no such 
> mixer control: PCM

The HDMI device does not have a mixer control named "PCM".

> This is the alsa part of my mpd.conf;-
> audio_output {
>       type            "alsa"
>       name            "My ALSA Device"
> #     device          "hw:1,0"         optional
> #     format          "44100:16:2"     optional
> #     mixer_device    "default"        optional
> #     mixer_control   "PCM"            optional
> #     mixer_index     "0"              optional
> }

Assuming that you want to use the analog outputs, uncomment
the "device" entry to make mpd use card 1.


Regards,
Clemens

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