[linux-audio-user] Gentoo: Alsa/Snd-usb-audio not working anymore

From: Markus Herhoffer <markus@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Tue Nov 07 2006 - 14:27:49 EET

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Hello!

I've already posted this topic to the official Gentoo forums, but nobody
was able to help me.

I've successfully run my Maya 44 USB together with the snd-usb-audio
module for more than a year. But after the last update of ALSA some
strange things are going on. "Alsaconf" doesn't find the USB soundcard
although snd-usb-audio is loaded. mpg123 gives the following error:

=== Could not load default driver and no driver specified in config
file. Exiting.

jackd prints the following errors:

Code:
JACK compiled with System V SHM support.
loading driver ..
apparent rate = 48000
creating alsa driver ... hw:0|hw:0|1024|2|48000|0|0|hwmon|hwmeter|-|32bit
control device hw:0
ALSA: Cannot open PCM device alsa_pcm for playback. Falling back to
capture-only mode
cannot load driver module alsa

Mplayer is able to play media through SDL (I've no idea what this
means), but complains about missing ALSA:

[AO OSS] audio_setup: Kann Audiogerät /dev/dsp nicht öffnen: No such
file or directory
alsa-init: using device default
alsa-init: playback open error: No such file or directory
[AO ESD] esd_open_sound fehlgeschlagen: Connection refused
[JACK] cannot open server
[AO SDL] Samplerate: 44100Hz Kanäle: Stereo Format s16le
AO: [sdl] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: kein Video
Starte Wiedergabe...

That means that ALSA is obviously not usable. Some more infos:

# cat /etc/modules.d/alsa
alias char-major-116 snd
alias char-major-14 soundcore

alias snd-card-0 snd-usb-audio
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0

alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss

options snd cards_limit=1

#lsusb
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0a92:0091 EGO SYStems, Inc. //Maya44USB
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0763:1002 Midiman
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

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