[PlanetCCRMA] "system" audio troubles

[Peter Lutek]

Mark Knecht wrote:

>On 11/1/05, Peter Lutek <plutek at infinity.net> wrote:
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>>Playing WAVE 'sound-sample.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate
>>44100 Hz, Stereo
>>Warning: rate is not accurate (requested = 44100Hz, got = 48000Hz)
>>         please, try the plug plugin (-Dplug:default)
>>aplay: pcm_write:1171: write error: Input/output error
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>In my experience this happens on systems where a given sound chip has
>a fixed sample rate. -Dplug tells alsa to do a smaple rate conversion
>in software I beleive.
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>>(that looks like it's trying to use the intel chip, with the 48k s.r.)
>>then, when i do this:
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>>aplay -Dplug:default sound-sample.wav
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>>i get this:
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>>Playing WAVE 'sound-sample.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate
>>44100 Hz, Stereo
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>>but the process never finishes (that line just sits there, and i have to
>>ctrl-c the process) and i have no sound actually output from the multiface.
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>In my experience the #1 reason this happens to me is that some other
>software has grabbed the sound chip. Check that other sound daemons
>aren't running and that no other Alsa apps are busy, stuck, crashed,
>etc.
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thanks, mark!
ok, i appear to have the multiface functioning as the default card now.

my (very simple!) .asoundrc is:

 pcm.hdsp {
    type hw
    card 1
}
ctl.hdsp {
    type hw
    card 1
}
pcm.!default {
    type plug
    slave.pcm hdsp
}

and "aplay sound-sample.wav" works without having to designate the plug 
method on the comand line.

unfortunately, i still have no sound from firefox (checking various 
flash sites, and video.google.com - the flash and video plays fine, but 
with no audio). any suggestions of where to go from here?

-p