Weird error message from aplay

WyoPBS · 2012-05-28 01:03:35

Got a new system this week and everything is set up and working, except a few weird audio glitches. Audio goes through the onboard HDMI thingie, but I'm not using HDMI; my monitor sends the HDMI signal to a different computer and VGA to my problem child. So HDMI audio is inactive. I finally got alsa and all the other audio apps to stop trying to use the nonexistent HDMI by default (resulting in a segfault) by simply deleting that module from libs/modules/{...} I set up /etc/asound.conf to identify the analog PCM as the default (card 2). But there's a further complication. I also have an external sound adapter plugged into USB for my podcast work, and it shows up as card #1.

Anyway, thanks to the default settings in asound.conf I can get most programs to send output to the analog onboard card and external speakers. But when I try to play a wave file with aplay, I get

aplay: set_params:1081: Sample format non available

That message came up in another thread in 2007, and the solution was to install an updated set of alsa-plugins... but pacman says mine are up to date and I assume any problem with them in 2007 is no longer an issue -- at any rate, aplay worked fine with wave files on my old PC. mpg123 plays mp3 files fine, and mplayer handles wave files (et al) fine... it's just aplay that's giving me grief.

I do *not* run jack, except during my podcast because idjc requires it.

Anyone else familiar with that error and can recommend a fix?

Arch Linux

#1 2012-05-28 01:03:35

Weird error message from aplay

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