[linux-audio-user] snd card now not working. apparently slipped from Card 1 to Card 0.

[Lee Revell]

On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 09:15 +0000, tim hall wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 November 2006 20:28, Lee Revell was like:
> > It does work, it's just card 0 now.  What aplay command line are you
> > using?  Do you have an .asoundrc?  You shouldn't.
> 
> Are you saying that having a .asoundrc is _definitely_ counter-productive, or 
> simply that it is not required? A pointer to whatever discussion I've missed 
> will be sufficient.

.asoundrc is not required for normal use.  Many people seem to believe
they need to "configure their soundcard" via .asoundrc to make it work.
This used to be required for dmix, but since ALSA 1.0.9 it should work
by default.

Read the alsa-devel archives.

Lee