Re: [Alsa-user] (snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL hw:0

[Lee R. <rlr...@jo...>]

On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 14:53 -0800, Chuck Harrison wrote:
> Alsa n00b here starting to bring up alsa on an embedded platform:
> openWRT for the Broadcom mips processor used in wireless routers,
> I have a Netgear WGT634U. http://www.openwrt.org 

Probably a build error that causes aplay to look in the build host path
rather than the target path.  I recently had a similar problem bringing
up ALSA on an embedded PPC system.

Install strace on your target (it's very easy) and strace the failing
aplay process to see which open() call fails.

Lee