[LAD] ASUS mobo NEW thread - started OT for another tread

[Ralf Mardorf]

> I just now rebooted to 2.6.28-rc6, and I still get this at the x start:
> ===================
> Sound server informational message:
> Error while initializing the sound driver:
> device: default can't be opened for playback (Connection refused)
> The sound server will continue, using the null output device.
> ====================
> I don't know what device the 'default device' is, although a cat 
> of /proc/asound/cards returns this list:
>  0 [Audigy2        ]: Audigy2 - Audigy 2 Value [SB0400]
>                       Audigy 2 Value [SB0400] (rev.0, serial:0x10011102) at 
> 0xac00, irq 17
>  1 [NVidia         ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
>                       HDA NVidia at 0xfe024000 irq 21
>  2 [HDMI           ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI HDMI
>                       HDA ATI HDMI at 0xfddfc000 irq 16
>   

Oops, "cat /proc/asound/cards" is better than to run QjackCtl to get
this info. The Audigy2 is the default at the moment, but this might
change with the next startup for some distros. I guess hw:0 is "default"
for all distros.

> And I have this in /dev:
> [root at coyote ~]# ls -l /dev/a*
> crw-rw----  1 root root 14, 14 2008-11-29 10:39 /dev/admmidi
> crw-rw----+ 1 root root 14, 12 2008-11-29 10:39 /dev/adsp
> crw-rw----+ 1 root root 14, 28 2008-11-29 10:39 /dev/adsp1
> crw-rw----+ 1 root root 14, 13 2008-11-29 10:39 /dev/amidi
> crw-rw----+ 1 root root 14,  4 2008-11-29 10:39 /dev/audio
> crw-rw----+ 1 root root 14, 20 2008-11-29 10:39 /dev/audio1
> crw-rw----  1 root root 10, 60 2008-11-29 10:39 /dev/autofs
>
> Here is /etc/alsa/pulse-default.conf:
> =================
> # PulseAudio plugin configuration
>
> # Let's create a virtual device "pulse" for mixer and PCM
>
> pcm.pulse {
>     type pulse
> }
>
> ctl.pulse {
>     type pulse
> }
>
> # Let's make it the default!
>
> pcm.!default {
>     type pulse
> }
>
> ctl.!default {
>     type pulse
> }
> ===============
>   

I don't know PulseAudio. For KDE e.g. I disable aRts. Why the hell do
people use something else, but ALSA and JACK? I recommend to use ALSA
and JACK only.

> Which gives me no clue as to what the 'default device' might be either.
> So here is /etc/alsa/alsa.conf:
> [snip]
>   

> and I had no idea it was that long. It does say card0 near the top, and if 
> that is in the order assigned in my modprobe.conf, and in the cat 
> of /proc/asound/cards then it is the audigy2 (emu10k1 driver)
>
> Who, or what is denying permissions as shown by the startup message above?
>
> Thanks folks.
>   

I'm still short in time. Is there a file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base for
your distro?

Cheers,
Ralf

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