[Raspbian-devel] Default Raspbian install

[Subba Rao]

Here is the ALSA message that I am seeing yesterday/today
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$ mpg123 Fav-song2.mp3
High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2, and 3.
Version 0.3.2-1 (2012/03/25). Written and copyrights by Joe Drew,
now maintained by Nanakos Chrysostomos and others.
Uses code from various people. See 'README' for more!
THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Playing MPEG stream from Fav-song2.mp3 ...
MPEG 1.0 layer III, 48 kbit/s, 44100 Hz stereo
ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.front
ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:4241:(_snd_config_evaluate) function
snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:4241:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat
returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:4241:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer
returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:4720:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or
directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
Can't find a suitable libao driver. (Is device in use?)
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Subba Rao

On 12/27/14 9:05 AM, Subba Rao wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have a default install of Raspbian.  For me, the main goal for this
> system's use is to listen to Music.  I am not interested in other
> distros for Raspberry Pi.
>
> My RPI has speakers connected to the headphone jack but this sound is
> not working on it.
>
> I have tried the following command and got this error.
>
> $ omxplayer -p -o local Fav-song1.mp3
> * failed to open vchiq instance
>
> Also, I have installed cmus, mpg123 and such command line music players
> and got some ALSA error messages.  This RPI worked for a year without
> any hitch.  Now, I am installing/reinstalling different distro on to
> make this work.  Yesterday, I was successful with playing on mp3 file
> but this was connected to the HDMI port (for Monitor during install).
>
> Any help at this stage is appreciated.  Thank you in advance.
>
> Subba Rao
>
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