Arch Linux

Tested on a HP Mini, gnaural-cvs works fine. I'll assume it's a problem with my audio configuration on the other laptop. Thanks for your help!

Hey again,
I did what you said, trying both the Analog and Digital outputs for the card, neither worked. In fact, the only thing the asoundrc did was stop audio playback from flash video online (how on earth are they related??).
Even after reboots, the file had no effect on Gnaural. I'm going to have to look at the source of gnaural to see how it sends output, and see if compiling it myself afterwards makes any difference. I'll get back to you on this!
Meanwhile, I'm going to test this package on my other Arch machine just to make sure.

try creating a ~/.asoundrc like this: http://gbpaste.org/Tmr4G
check 'aplay -l' and change 'hw:0,0" to the appropriate 'hw:card#,device#'

Also, I just tested using Gnaural to output the sound to an oga file, and it runs fine in Amarok. Which, I suppose, is really not that big a deal for me to do in the future as well.

Hey, thanks for the quick feedback!
Neither of those files exist on my system. Audio output from lspci:
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 06) (using snd_hda_intel)
I also have an audio interface for the HDMI on my Radeon card, but it's switched off and isn't default anyway so it shouldn't be targeted as an output.
Alsa is version 1.0.24-1, libsndfile is 1.0.23, portaudio is 19_20071207-3
It wouldn't surprise me if I missed a few config options on Alsa--I spent the majority of my building time working on making X pretty, and I got the basics of Alsa up and running and left it there. Sound playback works fine on both devices, I triple-checked alsamixer to make sure PCM and the PDIF's are up and unmuted, and I can't figure it out.

Hi admiralspark, I just built a fresh copy of this package on both my up-to-date oss4 and alsa boxes. Both work without any troubles.

Maybe something to do with what you have (or don't have) set for pcm.!default{} in ~/.asoundrc or /etc/asound.conf?
What achitecture are you using and what is your pcm.!default asound config?

Hello,
just downloaded and installed using Yaourt, and having a bit of an issue. Gnaural's interface loads correctly, but I'm not able to begin playback, receiving this error: "Init Audio System: Invalid device [device -1]". The only link I could find that referenced the problem mentioned that it needs the sndfile dependencies, which you list in the PKGBUILD, and which I already have installed. I don't suppose that Arch's libsndfile is incompatible or some other such trouble?
Oh, and ALSA works fine with all other sound playback, I've used Gnaural successfully many times before on other distros, but those were all-in-one packages.
Thanks,
-Admiral