<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><span></span><br><span></span><br><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><span>On 04 Nov 2016, at 17:53, David Sumbler <<a href="mailto:david@aeolia.co.uk">david@aeolia.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2507 Nov 3 15:42 alsa-base.conf</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2541 Nov 3 15:33 alsa-base.conf~</span><br></blockquote><br></div><div>Run</div><div><br></div><div> aplay - l</div><div><br></div><div>Is the wanted card hw: 1?</div><div><br></div><div>If so, move both files to /root</div><div><br></div><div> sudo mv -i <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.con* /root</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">and generate a new file, with no other content, but 'options snd slots=snd_hda_intel'</span></div><div><pre><font face="UICTFontTextStyleTallBody"><span style="white-space: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> echo "options snd slots=snd_hda_intel" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf</span></font></pre><pre><font face="UICTFontTextStyleTallBody"><span style="white-space: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">reboot and run</span></font></pre><pre><font face="UICTFontTextStyleTallBody"><span style="white-space: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> aplay -l</span></font></pre><pre><font face="UICTFontTextStyleTallBody"><span style="white-space: normal;">the sound device now must be hw:0. If no sound server runs, neither pulseaudio, nor jack and you didn't setup ALSA to some custom setting, then it should be available for all apps using plain ALSA and that usually try to connect with the default device. If an app grabbed the device, no other app could access it at the same time. To make it available for another app, you first need to close the app using the sound device, before you open the other app.</span></font></pre><pre><font face="UICTFontTextStyleTallBody"><span style="white-space: normal;">If more than one app should use the device at the same time, you need to use a sound server or dmix.</span></font></pre><pre><font face="UICTFontTextStyleTallBody"><span style="white-space: normal;">Regards,</span></font></pre><pre><span style="white-space: normal; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody;">Ralf</span></pre></div></div></div></body></html>