[Alsa-user] aplay and speaker-test fails

[Szekely G. <hod...@cs...>]

hi there,
I tried get ALSA make some noise on my ARM board, but no luck:

# aplay ext
Playing WAVE 'ext' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo
aplay: set_params:960: unable to install sw params:
start_mode: DATA
xrun_mode: STOP
tstamp_mode: NONE
period_step: 1
sleep_min: 0
avail_min: 0
xfer_align: 10
silence_threshold: 0
silence_size: 0
boundary: 1293942784

# speaker-test -c 2 -Dhw:0,0 -r 44100 -f 440 -F S16_LE
speaker-test 0.0.7
Playback device is hw:0,0
Stream parameters are 44100Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels
Sine wave rate is 440.0000Hz
Rate set to 44100Hz (requested 44100Hz)
Buffer size range from 8 to 32768
Period size range from 8 to 2040
Periods = 4
Buffer time size 575
To choose buffer_size = 15052
To choose period_size = 3763
was set period_size = 0
was set buffer_size = 15056
Unable to set sw params for playback: Invalid argument
Setting of swparams failed: Invalid argument

Environment:
Intel PXA255 + Philips UCB1400 AC97
Kernel 2.6.11.5(+ board support paches), ALSA drivers from CVS 
(hendhelds.org toolcahin)
alsa-lib-1.0.9rc1
alsa-utils-1.0.9rc1
The alsa packages are cross compiled against uClibc 0.9.27. (with buildroot)
The whole filesystem is read-only.

Any idea what can be wrong?
Thanks!
	George