From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5 Description of problem: [root@ckr-1 ~]# aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav 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 default definition (id: default, value: cards.pcm.default) aplay: main:544: audio open error: Invalid argument [root@ckr-1 ~]# Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): alsa-lib-1.0.10-2.FC4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install FC4 with 'minimal' Custom installation. 2. yum update everything 3. yum install alsa-utils, adjust alsamixer and attempt to play any *.wav Actual Results: [root@ckr-1 ~]# aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav 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 default definition (id: default, value: cards.pcm.default) aplay: main:544: audio open error: Invalid argument [root@ckr-1 ~]# Expected Results: Sound to emit from speakers. Additional info: Seems to have worked fine last week using same install technique. Something has changed in the kernel or ALSA(!?).
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