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Why is my sound card not recognizing ALSA?
I’m trying to enable my target’s sound card to work through ALSA, it’s a Qualcomm MSM8660 Snapdragon which means there is no pci devices and running a kind of embedded linux. Because this device is originally a commercial android phone so I’m sure it has proper built-in audio drivers on its kernel but ALSA doesn’t recognize audiocards at all.
Are there any ALSA utils that can find card 0?
I wasn’t sure what I needed so I got alsa-utils, alsa-firmware, alsa-lib and alsa-oss yep. I wasn’t sure what I needed so I got alsa-utils, alsa-firmware, alsa-lib and alsa-oss
Is there a way to make ALSA play music?
I also no longer get the errors in my terminal, but music still doesn’t play. If it helps, the website is playlist.com. I think it’s closer to flash than alsa, actually, except videos still work fine, but without sound.
Why does ALSA say ” cannot open mixer “?
And I have used alsaconf to configure my sound card. This might be a related problem: when I run alsamixer as regular user, I get the error: “cannot open mixer: No such file or directory”
How can I tell my default audio output is card 2 and Device 0?
Alsa – how can I tell my default audio output is card 2 and device 0, not hdmi? – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange Alsa – how can I tell my default audio output is card 2 and device 0, not hdmi? How can I tell my system default sound output is card 2 and device 0, and not card 2 device 3 or 7 or 1? I did this, but no sound.
What to do if sound card keeps switching indices?
If you find that your sound cards keep switching indices, you won’t be able to hardcode defaults.pcm.card 2 in /etc/asound.conf. One (complex) approach might work, is to configure the sound kernel modules with your desired priority. This approach is described in Debian Bug #614113:
How to set the default device in alsamixer?
This will be priorities of corresponding sound devices. run alsamixer and configure you default sound device, exit alsamixer. use you favorite sound player to test you new configuration. To set the default device, you should not redefine the default device but simply put the following into /etc/asound.conf: