I can't play audio on non-default devices. Running aplay with no options, or with -D default, works fine. Running aplay with -D hdmi does not work, failing with this message: aplay: main:722: audio open error: No such file or directory Running it in strace, I see that the last interesting thing it does before printing that message is it tries to open /dev/snd/pcmC0D3p, which does not exist; it should probably be addressing pcmC1D3p instead. Reproducible: Always kruskal asound # aplay -L null Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture) default:CARD=MID HDA Intel MID, ALC663 Analog Default Audio Device sysdefault:CARD=MID HDA Intel MID, ALC663 Analog Default Audio Device front:CARD=MID,DEV=0 HDA Intel MID, ALC663 Analog Front speakers surround40:CARD=MID,DEV=0 HDA Intel MID, ALC663 Analog 4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers surround41:CARD=MID,DEV=0 HDA Intel MID, ALC663 Analog 4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers surround50:CARD=MID,DEV=0 HDA Intel MID, ALC663 Analog 5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers surround51:CARD=MID,DEV=0 HDA Intel MID, ALC663 Analog 5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers surround71:CARD=MID,DEV=0 HDA Intel MID, ALC663 Analog 7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers iec958:CARD=MID,DEV=0 HDA Intel MID, ALC663 Digital IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0 HDA NVidia, HDMI 0 HDMI Audio Output hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=1 HDA NVidia, HDMI 0 HDMI Audio Output hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=2 HDA NVidia, HDMI 0 HDMI Audio Output hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3 HDA NVidia, HDMI 0 HDMI Audio Output kruskal asound # ls -1 /dev/snd by-path controlC0 controlC1 hwC0D0 hwC1D0 hwC1D1 hwC1D2 hwC1D3 pcmC0D0c pcmC0D0p pcmC0D1p pcmC0D2c pcmC1D3p pcmC1D7p pcmC1D8p pcmC1D9p seq timer kruskal asound # cat cards 0 [MID ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel MID HDA Intel MID at 0xf4900000 irq 53 1 [NVidia ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia HDA NVidia at 0xf3080000 irq 17 kruskal asound # cat devices 1: : sequencer 2: [ 0- 2]: digital audio capture 3: [ 0- 1]: digital audio playback 4: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback 5: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture 6: [ 0- 0]: hardware dependent 7: [ 0] : control 8: [ 1- 9]: digital audio playback 9: [ 1- 8]: digital audio playback 10: [ 1- 7]: digital audio playback 11: [ 1- 3]: digital audio playback 12: [ 1- 3]: hardware dependent 13: [ 1- 2]: hardware dependent 14: [ 1- 1]: hardware dependent 15: [ 1- 0]: hardware dependent 16: [ 1] : control 33: : timer kruskal asound # cat pcm 00-00: ALC663 Analog : ALC663 Analog : playback 1 : capture 1 00-01: ALC663 Digital : ALC663 Digital : playback 1 00-02: ALC663 Alt Analog : ALC663 Alt Analog : capture 1 01-03: HDMI 0 : HDMI 0 : playback 1 01-07: HDMI 0 : HDMI 0 : playback 1 01-08: HDMI 0 : HDMI 0 : playback 1 01-09: HDMI 0 : HDMI 0 : playback 1 kruskal asound # emerge --info Portage 2.2.8-r1 (default/linux/amd64/13.0, gcc-4.7.3, glibc-2.17, 3.12.13-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.12.13-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7_CPU_Q_720_@_1.60GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 6036332 total, 3627640 free KiB Swap: 8390452 total, 8390452 free Timestamp of tree: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 16:45:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23.2 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p45 dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0 dev-lang/python: 2.7.5-r3, 3.3.3 dev-util/cmake: 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Would you please take the time to report this to upstream? I don't think it will gain the attention it deserves here. http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
(In reply to Samuli Suominen from comment #1) > Would you please take the time to report this to upstream? I don't think it > will gain the attention it deserves here. > > http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel Done. Will report on any updates.
(In reply to Christopher Head from comment #2) > (In reply to Samuli Suominen from comment #1) > > Would you please take the time to report this to upstream? I don't think it > > will gain the attention it deserves here. > > > > http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel > > Done. Will report on any updates. ALSA 1.0.28 is in Portage now, and Linux 3.15 has been released. Any reply from upstream? Can you retry with up-to-date packages? Just trying to sort the *alsa* bugs in bugzilla after the 1.0.28 addition...
Sorry for the lack of update. Upstream claims it is not a bug and that one must use “-D hdmi:CARD=NVidia” instead. I originally found this when trying to track down why Linphone would not send its ring file through HDMI; since ALSA upstream claims it is not a bug, the bug must be in Linphone or one of its dependencies using the wrong output name, so I will investigate further and file a separate bug.
thanks for following up!