[CM] snd: cannot set hardware parameters for default

[Kjetil S. Matheussen]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, andersvi at extern.uio.no wrote:

>>>>>> " " == Ralf Mattes <rm at seid-online.de> writes:
>
>     > On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 19:58 +0100, andersvi at extern.uio.no wrote:
>    >> Hei Kjetil!
>    >>
>    >> Jeg testa akkurat forslaget om å utelate --with-alsa (siste cvs
>    >> update) uten suksess.  (yes, thats norwegian folks, but you
>    >> brights will understand, wont you!:-)
>
>     > Ok, so you are trying to buy a dishwasher that can handle
>     > oversized paella pans? ;-)
>
> Whats paella?  Nice try, but you got the grammar not quite right.
> (Besides we dont use dishwashers in this country this time of year...)
>

That's a weird thing to say, personally I prefer clean clothes, even
in the winter.


>     > Hm, from _this_ we can only infere that some program hijacks
>     > your sound device.
>
> $ fuser -v /dev/dsp
>
> returns nothing.
>
> And im still able to play sounds with play, mplayer, alsaplayer,
> aplayer, audacity... and start jack
>
>

Very strange. Perhaps the error is wrong. Do you have oss emulation 
loaded? (lsmod |grep snd_pcm_oss)