On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 04:56:45PM -0500, Steve Shockley wrote:
> I've got a Xitel DG2, which is a USB sound card with optical output.  I 
> previously set up a nice music player using mpd, and it worked great. 
> Unfortunately the drive died, so I'm building a new one.  (The old 
> install's dmesg is at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?m=115863499102215, 
> the hardware is the same except for the hard drive.)
> 
> Since the rebuild, the laptop's internal sound works, but the usb sound 
> doesn't.  I plugged the USB sound into a Windows machine and my stereo 
> made sounds, so I think the adapter is okay.  I did create 
> /dev/{mixer,audioctl,audio,sound}1.  All the outputs are unmuted.  Doing 
> cat /bsd > /dev/audio1 (or sound1) does something, but makes no noise.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 

does at least the following work?

audioctl -f /dev/audioctl1 play.encoding=slinear_le play.precision=16
cat /bsd >/dev/sound1

if not, does it work if you unplug and then plug again the device
without changing the outputs.speaker control?

-- Alexandre

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