[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#709106: Bug#709106: [alsa-utils] speaker-test, aplay fail cryptically ("unable to open slave")

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Filipus Klutiero <chealer at gmail.com> [2013-05-20 17:19 -0400]:

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> This desktop has 2 sound cards, an integrated Realtek ALC887 and a
> Trinity APU with HDMI audio:
> http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=a8309b672edaccacce845e209c12df8a0f79ef13
> speaker-test works if I invert the order of cards (modprobe
> snd_hda_intel index=1,0).  The problem could be that speaker-test
> tries to use the first card and fails to realize it isn't
> supported. 

You can fix the order of the souncards. Please post the output of
$ lsmod | grep snd
and tell us which soundcard you prefer to be them number 0.
See /usr/share/doc/alsa-base/README.Debian.

> Although I booted with radeon.audio=1 and am using
> Linux 3.8, I didn't manage to get any sound from the HDMI card.
> The Radeon HD 7660 is based on Northern Islands, but it appears to
> be a mix of Northern and Southern Islands, and Southern Islands
> HDMI audio is not yet supported.  This problem existed before I
> upgraded ALSA.

This sounds more like a driver problem. You can check at [0] wether
soundcards are supported or not.

[0] http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Main

Elimar
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