additional information as it appears to be related.... running on beagleXM board....
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ linaro images linaro-natty-headless-tar-20110216-0.tar.gz and hwpack_linaro-omap3_20110216-0_armel_supported.tar.gz ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ beagleXM> cat /proc/asound/version Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ beagleXM> aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono aplay: set_params:1123: Unable to install hw params: ACCESS: RW_INTERLEAVED FORMAT: S16_LE SUBFORMAT: STD SAMPLE_BITS: 16 FRAME_BITS: 16 CHANNELS: 1 RATE: 48000 PERIOD_TIME: 125000 PERIOD_SIZE: 6000 PERIOD_BYTES: 12000 PERIODS: 4 BUFFER_TIME: 500000 BUFFER_SIZE: 24000 BUFFER_BYTES: 48000 TICK_TIME: 0 [ 6842.271179] asoc: interface omap-mcbsp-dai.1 hw params failed ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ beagleXM> paplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav Connection failure: Connection refused ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ beagleXM> dpkg -l | grep alsa ii alsa-base 1.0.24+dfsg-0ubuntu1 ALSA driver configuration files ii alsa-utils 1.0.24.2-0ubuntu2 Utilities for configuring and using ALSA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ beagleXM> mpg123 text_file.mp3 High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layers 1, 2 and 3 version 1.12.1; written and copyright by Michael Hipp and others free software (LGPL/GPL) without any warranty but with best wishes Playing MPEG stream 1 of 1: text_file.mp3 ... [alsa.c:110] error: initialize_device(): cannot set hw params [audio.c:625] error: failed to open audio device [mpg123.c:507] error: failed to reset audio device: No such device ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/712025 Title: asoc: interface omap-mcbsp-dai hw params failed -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs