Problems with sound

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 02:01:24PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   Yes, the account is a member of group audio, and no, I am not running
> PAM. The symptoms when trying to play an mp3...
> 
>   - audacious dies
> 
>   - mpg123 *FAILS* with the output
> initialize_device(): cannot set hw params
> audio: Success
> 
>   - mpg321 gives an error message, but goes on to play the mp3 properly,
>     The error message is...
> ALSA snd_pcm_hw_params error: Invalid argument
> 
>   Yes, that's correct, mpg123 reports "Success" but fails.  mpg321
> reports an error but plays the mp3 properly.

Has it ever worked?  What sound device?

Does the driver version of alsa (in the kernel and /proc/asound/version)
match the version of the alsa library and utilities?

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Len Sorensen
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