Hi Renick, Besides Istvan's note, were you by chance rendering a file with mono output? (nchnls = 1). I have off and on since csound5 began and went through different audio drivers have had problems with nchnls = 1. steven On 9/15/05, Istvan Varga <istvan_v@fibermail.hu> wrote: > Renick Bell wrote: > > > However, I still don't have audio. Now I have this error: > > > > *** Unable to set number of channels on soundcard > > Failed to initialise real time audio output[m > > [minactive allocs returned to freespace > > It is possible that you have the already reported problem with > the "dmix" device that is unfortunately the default in newer versions > of ALSA. Try using a device other than the default, for example > -o dac:hw:0 (the 0 is the card number). > -- > Send bugs reports to this list. > To unsubscribe, send email to csound-unsubscribe@lists.bath.ac.uk > -- Send bugs reports to this list. To unsubscribe, send email to csound-unsubscribe@lists.bath.ac.uk