[linux-audio-user] problems with EMI 2|6 and alsa

Hello list, Anyone here have any experience getting alsa to work with the EMI 2|6? I'm having some problems getting everything to play nice together. Using aplay with no options gives me some errors about sample formats (according to /proc/asound/card0/stream1 the acceptable sample formats are S16_LE and S24_LE). 'Using aply -d plughw:1 sound.wav'gets me a little further - aplay tells me: "Playing sound.wav - Signed 16 bit Little Endian, 44.1KHz, Mono." Then it informs me "xrun - at least 0.074 ms long!" and then I get an error message : Alsa lib pcm_hw.c:494:(snd_pcm_hw_start) - SNDDRV_PCM_IOCTL_START failed : Broken pipe. And of course I get no sound. For the record I'm running debian sid, 2.4.19 kernel, alsa 0.9.6 on a G3 Powerbook 500. Perhaps something wrong with my alsa lib? Or am I missing something here? Any help from someone with any experience with the EMI 2|6 would be greatly appreciated! best, Nick