Re: [Alsa-user] strange problem with quattro, red hat 9.0, and planet ccrma

[Fernando P. Lopez-L. <na...@cc...>]

> I am having strange problems with alsa right now. I
> have actually had it with redhat 7.3 and planet ccrma
> too. Randomly when I start up I get start up messages
> to the effect that insmod ------alsa information--
> failed to load because such and such device already
> exists. When i start up I get the failure below. No
> sound program works. Sometimes snd-usb-audio does load
> and runs fine in the start up scripts, but I still get
> the errors below and no sound program works. Any
> ideas?
> 
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> JACK compiled with System V SHM support
> loading driver ..
> creating alsa driver ...
> hw|hw|1024|2|44100|nomon|swmeter|rt
> ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1055:(snd_pcm_hw_open) open
> /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed: No such
> device
> jackstart: pcm.c:689: snd_pcm_nonblock: Assertion
> `pcm' failed.
> received signal 6 during shutdown (ignored)
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> [booey@localhost booey]$ pd
> Testing for Jack
> cannot connect to jack server
> cannot connect to default JACK server
> cannot connect to jack server
> cannot connect to default JACK server
> ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1055:(snd_pcm_hw_open) open
> /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c failed: No such
> device
> snd_pcm_open (input): No such device
> ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1055:(snd_pcm_hw_open) open
> /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed: No such
> device
> snd_pcm_open (output): No such device
> Using ALSA interface
> audio I/O stuck... closing audio
> -------------------------------------------------------

You seem to not have the proper alsa device files in /dev/snd/
Weird, they should have been created at package install time. 

What version of the alsa-driver Planet CCRMA rpm did you install?
You could try running (as root) the snddevices script in:
  /usr/sbin/snddevices

-- Fernando