Description of problem: Trying to get slmodem-alsa working on a rawhide system, I was getting the following errors: ALSA lib conf.c:1592:(snd_config_load1) _toplevel_:51:23:No such file or directory ALSA lib conf.c:2837:(snd_config_hook_load) /etc/alsa/cards/aliases.conf may be old or corrupted: consider to remove or fix it ALSA lib conf.c:2700:(snd_config_hooks_call) function snd_config_hook_load returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib pcm.c:1969:(snd_pcm_open_conf) Invalid type for PCM modem:1,0 definition (id: modem, value: cards.pcm.modem) moving /etc/alsa/cards/aliases.conf out of the way got things working for me. # aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: IXP [ATI IXP], device 0: ATI IXP AC97 [ATI IXP AC97] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 1: Modem [ATI IXP Modem], device 0: ATI IXP MC97 [ATI IXP MC97] Subdevices: 0/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): alsa-lib-1.0.10rf-2 How reproducible: everytime
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 169729 ***