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Chimera

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From: Run Level 7

Registered: 2010-03-28

Posts: 43

[solved] alsa cannot find card '0'

Hi guys! I'm a recent convert from fedora and I'm still trying to get things set up.

My current problem is when I try to play online music. I have flash installed, and youtube videos work, but music doesn't. When I try to play a song, I get these errors from alsa:

ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:4154:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:4154:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:4154:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:4633:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2211:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1399:(_snd_pcm_hw_open) Invalid value for card

Interestingly, these errors show up in my root terminal, NOT my regular user terminal, where I ran firefox from.
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"

thanks in advance for the help!

Last edited by Chimera (2010-04-15 14:11:58)

cesura

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Re: [solved] alsa cannot find card '0'

Did you install alsa-utils?

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Chimera

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From: Run Level 7

Registered: 2010-03-28

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Re: [solved] alsa cannot find card '0'

yep. I wasn't sure what I needed so I got alsa-utils, alsa-firmware, alsa-lib and alsa-oss

n0dix

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Registered: 2009-09-22

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Re: [solved] alsa cannot find card '0'

See the wiki: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Adv … chitecture

cesura

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Re: [solved] alsa cannot find card '0'

yep. I wasn't sure what I needed so I got alsa-utils, alsa-firmware, alsa-lib and alsa-oss

ls /usr/bin | grep alsa

See if alsamixer is there

Last edited by cesura (2010-04-07 01:43:55)

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Chimera

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From: Run Level 7

Registered: 2010-03-28

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Re: [solved] alsa cannot find card '0'

I do have alsamixer--I'm able to run it as root, just not as a regular user

And also, I followed the wiki, and I was able to play the example wav file. 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.

Michael C.

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From: Vancouver, BC

Registered: 2009-12-16

Posts: 33

Re: [solved] alsa cannot find card '0'

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this sounds like a missing /etc/group entry? "usermod -G audio" and all that?

n0dix

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Registered: 2009-09-22

Posts: 956

Re: [solved] alsa cannot find card '0'

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this sounds like a missing /etc/group entry? "usermod -G audio" and all that?

probably, but i supposed he follows the wiki doc without missing a step.

Chimera

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From: Run Level 7

Registered: 2010-03-28

Posts: 43

Re: [solved] alsa cannot find card '0'

I know nobody's reading this anymore, but I just wanted to say it's working now. It just started working one day
thx for the help everyone.

fakedrake

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Registered: 2011-02-09

Posts: 18

Re: [solved] alsa cannot find card '0'

same problem here
didnt fix itself so far...

Z3r0CooL

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Registered: 2021-11-16

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Re: [solved] alsa cannot find card '0'

Run Spotifyd as sudo, if it works as sudo but not as user, you an make group permission adjustments

Last edited by Z3r0CooL (2021-11-16 04:29:53)

Xyne

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Re: [solved] alsa cannot find card '0'

@Z3r0CooL
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