I have just started three days ago to play around with my 500G and installed 1.9.2.7-4, which works well for my usual needs.

Now I want to get my sound card and bluetooth dongle up and running, just for fun (it would be nice to have a internet radio in my stereo).

From reading the forums I have understood that "madplay" is the way to go, and I can download it from the forum and run it with a sample mp3 file to /dev/null, but it does not work if I try to get to the sound card. Either with the default, or /dev/sound/dsp.

Since the LED is not flashing in the sound card, I do not think I am talking to the right port or not doing it in the right way.

Output from dmesg:

Code:
hub.c: new USB device 00:04.0-1, assigned address 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x41e/0x3040) is not claimed by any active driver.
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
usb.c: registered new driver usblp
printer.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
usb.c: registered new driver audio
usbaudio: device 2 audiocontrol interface 0 has 1 input and 1 output AudioStreaming interfaces
usbaudio: device 2 interface 2 altsetting 1 channels 2 framesize 2 configured
usbaudio: valid input sample rate 44100
usbaudio: device 2 interface 2 altsetting 1: format 0x01000010 sratelo 44100 sratehi 44100 attributes 0x01
usbaudio: device 2 interface 2 altsetting 2 channels 2 framesize 3 configured
usbaudio: valid input sample rate 44100
usbaudio: device 2 interface 2 altsetting 2: format 0x01000800 sratelo 44100 sratehi 44100 attributes 0x01
usbaudio: device 2 interface 2 altsetting 3 channels 2 framesize 2 configured
usbaudio: valid input sample rate 48000
usbaudio: device 2 interface 2 altsetting 3: format 0x01000010 sratelo 48000 sratehi 48000 attributes 0x01
usbaudio: device 2 interface 2 altsetting 4 channels 2 framesize 3 configured
usbaudio: valid input sample rate 48000
usbaudio: device 2 interface 2 altsetting 4: format 0x01000800 sratelo 48000 sratehi 48000 attributes 0x01
usbaudio: device 2 interface 2 altsetting 5 channels 2 framesize 2 configured
usbaudio: valid input sample rate 96000
usbaudio: device 2 interface 2 altsetting 5: format 0x01000010 sratelo 96000 sratehi 96000 attributes 0x01
usbaudio: device 2 interface 2 altsetting 6 channels 2 framesize 3 configured
usbaudio: valid input sample rate 96000
usbaudio: device 2 interface 2 altsetting 6: format 0x01000800 sratelo 96000 sratehi 96000 attributes 0x01
usbaudio: device 2 interface 1 altsetting 0 does not have an endpoint
usbaudio: device 2 interface 1 altsetting 1 channels 2 framesize 2 configured
usbaudio: valid output sample rate 44100
usbaudio: device 2 interface 1 altsetting 1: format 0x01000010 sratelo 44100 sratehi 44100 attributes 0x01
usbaudio: device 2 interface 1 altsetting 2 channels 2 framesize 3 configured
usbaudio: valid output sample rate 44100
usbaudio: device 2 interface 1 altsetting 2: format 0x01000800 sratelo 44100 sratehi 44100 attributes 0x01
usbaudio: device 2 interface 1 altsetting 3 channels 4 framesize 2 configured
usbaudio: valid output sample rate 44100
usbaudio: device 2 interface 1 altsetting 3: format 0x03000010 sratelo 44100 sratehi 44100 attributes 0x01
usbaudio: device 2 interface 1 altsetting 4 channels 4 framesize 3 configured
usbaudio: valid output sample rate 44100
usbaudio: device 2 interface 1 altsetting 4: format 0x03000800 sratelo 44100 sratehi 44100 attributes 0x01
usbaudio: device 2 interface 1 altsetting 5 channels 6 framesize 2 configured
usbaudio: valid output sample rate 44100
usbaudio: device 2 interface 1 altsetting 5: format 0x05000010 sratelo 44100 sratehi 44100 attributes 0x01
usbaudio: device 2 interface 1 altsetting 6 channels 6 framesize 3 configured
usbaudio: valid output sample rate 44100
usbaudio: device 2 interface 1 altsetting 6: format 0x05000800 sratelo 44100 sratehi 44100 attributes 0x01
usbaudio: device 2 interface 1 altsetting 7 channels 2 framesize 2 configured
usbaudio: valid output sample rate 48000
usbaudio: device 2 interface 1 altsetting 7: format 0x01000010 sratelo 48000 sratehi 48000 attributes 0x01
usbaudio: device 2 interface 1 altsetting 8 channels 2 framesize 3 configured
usbaudio: valid output sample rate 48000
usbaudio: device 2 interface 1 altsetting 8: format 0x01000800 sratelo 48000 sratehi 48000 attributes 0x01
usbaudio: device 2 interface 1 altsetting 9 channels 4 framesize 2 configured
usbaudio: valid output sample rate 48000
usbaudio: device 2 interface 1 altsetting 9: format 0x03000010 sratelo 48000 sratehi 48000 attributes 0x01
usbaudio: device 2 interface 1 altsetting 10 channels 4 framesize 3 configured
usbaudio: valid output sample rate 48000
usbaudio: device 2 interface 1 altsetting 10: format 0x03000800 sratelo 48000 sratehi 48000 attributes 0x01
usbaudio: device 2 interface 1 altsetting 11 channels 6 framesize 2 configured
usbaudio: valid output sample rate 48000
usbaudio: device 2 interface 1 altsetting 11: format 0x05000010 sratelo 48000 sratehi 48000 attributes 0x01
usbaudio: device 2 interface 1 altsetting 12 channels 6 framesize 3 configured
usbaudio: valid output sample rate 48000
usbaudio: device 2 interface 1 altsetting 12: format 0x05000800 sratelo 48000 sratehi 48000 attributes 0x01
usbaudio: device 2 interface 1 altsetting 13 channels 2 framesize 2 configured
usbaudio: valid output sample rate 96000
usbaudio: device 2 interface 1 altsetting 13: format 0x01000010 sratelo 96000 sratehi 96000 attributes 0x01
usbaudio: device 2 interface 1 altsetting 14 channels 2 framesize 3 configured
usbaudio: valid output sample rate 96000
usbaudio: device 2 interface 1 altsetting 14: format 0x01000800 sratelo 96000 sratehi 96000 attributes 0x01
usbaudio: registered dsp 14,3
usbaudio: constructing mixer for Terminal 3 type 0x0301
usbaudio: feature unit 2: OSS mixer interface does not support more than 2 channels
usbaudio: registered mixer 14,0
usbaudio: constructing mixer for Terminal 6 type 0x0101
usbaudio: registered mixer 14,16
usb_audio_parsecontrol: usb_audio_state at 80a59920
audio.c: v1.0.0:USB Audio Class driver
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
and the output from "lsmod"

Code:
[admin@(none) root]$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
usb-storage            62144   0 (unused)
sd_mod                 13268   0 (unused)
scsi_mod               70176   1 [usb-storage sd_mod]
videodev                8304   0 (unused)
audio                  50120   2
soundcore               5280   3 [audio]
printer                12620   0 (unused)
lp                      8628   0
parport_splink          2956   1
parport                25664   1 [lp parport_splink]
usb-ohci               21764   0 (unused)
usbcore                77224   1 [usb-storage audio printer usb-ohci]
ipt_NETMAP               992   2
ip_nat_starcraft        2224   0 (unused)
wl                    418352   0 (unused)
et                     26912   0 (unused)
and the files are there

Code:
[admin@(none) log]$ ls -l /dev/sound
crw-------    1 admin    root      14,   3 Jan  1  1970 dsp
crw-------    1 admin    root      14,   0 Jan  1  1970 mixer
crw-------    1 admin    root      14,  16 Jan  1  1970 mixer1
I am not unfamiliar with Linux as such, but I have not kept up with the internals for quite a while, so I would appreciate a hint regarding where to poke to get it running.