[LAU] Multiple sound cards

[ailo]

On 12/16/2010 02:08 AM, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Paul Davis<paul at linuxaudiosystems.com>  wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 7:14 PM, ailo<ailo.at at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> On 12/16/2010 12:26 AM, ailo wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> Apart from the aplay -L result at the end I got a lot of this:
>>>>>
>>>>> that's not what we're looking for. it should open ~/.asoundrc
>>>>> if it doesn't show with that command, use
>>>>>
>>>>> strace -e trace=file aplay -L
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> How can I make sure editing ~/.asoundrc has any effect?
>>
>> that is what we were doing. what is the output of:
>>
>>    ls -l ~/.asoundrc
>
> also, check /etc/share/alsa/alsa.conf for this block of text, or
> something very much like it:
>
>
> @hooks [
> 	{
> 		func load
> 		files [
> 			"/etc/asound.conf"
> 			"~/.asoundrc"
> 		]
> 		errors false
> 	}
> ]
>
> this is how ~/.asoundrc is loaded.

Yes, I checked that. I was reading up on .asoundrc on the alsa 
unofficial wiki.
Alsa, I noticed that aplay -L gave me an error after I had made a typo 
in .asoundrc, so it's definitely doing something.

#ls -l .asoundrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 ailo ailo 69 2010-12-16 02:01 .asoundrc


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ailo