[linux-audio-user] audiophile 2496 with Fedora Core 3

Michael Mossey mpm at alumni.caltech.edu
Mon Apr 18 15:25:42 EDT 2005


<quote who="Fernando Lopez-Lezcano">
> On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 11:21, Michael Mossey wrote:
>> Thanks for the info-- another question:  Is the idea here that kudzu
>> will
>> fail to detect the Audiophile 2496 if onboard sound is enabled?
>> Shouldn't
>> it be able to detect both sound systems?
>
> Yes, it should detect both. There could be several reasons for the
> failure. One is that for some reason the system does not see the card as
> plugged in into the pci bus (which does not make sense as you say it
> works under windows). Do a:
>   lspci -v
> Do you see an entry for the 2496?
>
> The other reason could be that the card has a pci revision number that
> is not recognized by the version of alsa that you have installed at this
> point (is this the Planet CCRMA version? Or the original Fedora
> version?).
>
> Try loading (as root) the kernel module for the card and see what the
> load process says:
>
>   /sbin/modprobe snd-ice1712


I'm not at this computer now, but when I did

rpm -q alsa

it said that alsa was not installed.  I guess the FC3 installer doesn't
include it by default.  Maybe that is my next step.

-Mike


>
> -- Fernandp
>
>> This same Audiophile 2496 card is accessible to Windows XP and works
>> fine
>> there.  (This is a dual-boot system.)
>>
>> More information: I installed the OSS driver for the Audiophile 2496 but
>> it said "failed to find the hardware."  I don't know in what sense it
>> tries, whether it actually probes the PCI bus or just reads
>> /etc/sysconfig/hwconf.  Of course the A2496 was not in
>> /etc/sysconfig/hwconf because kudzu didn't find it.
>>
>> Okay, I will check the mobo jumpers.
>>
>> Thanks everyone,
>> -Mike
>>
>> <quote who="nigel henry">
>> > Hi Mike. You may have a jumper on your mobo to disable the onboard
>> > soundcard.
>> > I use an Audigy2 soundblaster card and disabling the onboard sound by
>> > means
>> > of the jumper on the board got things going ok. You'll probably need
>> the
>> > manual for the mobo to see where it actually is. All the best. Nigel.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Monday 18 Apr 2005 5:54 pm, Michael Mossey wrote:
>> >> Thanks for your suggestions, everyone.  Unofrtunately, I'm still
>> having
>> >> problems.  kudzu is not finding by Audiophile 2496.  I commented out
>> the
>> >> onboard sound stuff from /etc/modprobe.conf and /etc/sysconfig/hwconf
>> >> and
>> >> rebooted.  I disabled the onboard sound in the bios--or rather, it
>> >> wasn't
>> >> clear what the bios options were, I selected "disable audio codec"
>> which
>> >> was the only audio-related option.  I booted FC3.  It detected "new
>> >> hardware" which turned out to be the onboard sound.  It did not
>> detect
>> >> the
>> >> Audiophile 2496.
>> >>
>> >> This is an HP Pavilion computer.
>> >>
>> >> Any ideas at this point?
>> >>
>> >> -Mike
>> >>
>> >> <
>> >> quote who="aljordan at maine.rr.com">
>> >>
>> >> > When I installed Planetccrma, I had a the onboard motherboard sound
>> >> card
>> >> > working.  When I put the Audiophile 2496 in, I installed it, let
>> kudzu
>> >> > find it.
>> >> >
>> >> > After bootup I edited /etc/modprobe.conf and moved the new lines
>> for
>> >> the
>> >> > audiophile in front of the ones for the onboard sound, and I also
>> >> > reversed the snd-card-0 snd-card-1 numbers so that the audiophile
>> 2496
>> >> > was seen as the default sound card.
>> >> >
>> >> > After that I added a .asoundrc file for the audiophile 2496 to my
>> home
>> >> > directory and a system wide one to /etc based on the directions at
>> the
>> >> > alsa site:
>> >> >
>> >> > http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?company=Midiman
>> >> >%2FMAudio&card=Delta+Audiophile+2496.&chip=ICE1712+%28Envy24%29&module=ice
>> >> >1712#aso
>> >> >
>> >> > Alan
>> >> >
>> >> > ----- Original Message -----
>> >> > From: Michael Mossey <mpm at alumni.caltech.edu>
>> >> > Date: Sunday, April 17, 2005 5:24 pm
>> >> > Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] audiophile 2496 with Fedora Core 3
>> >> >
>> >> >> Hmm, when I went to the Planet CCRMA website, it said "Install
>> >> >> Fedora Core
>> >> >> 3.  You should now have a properly configured and working sound
>> >> >> card.
>> >> >> Then install the CCRMA sound applications."  What's wrong with
>> this
>> >> >> picture is that I don't have a properly configured and working
>> >> >> sound card
>> >> >> after doing the Fedora Core 3 install.  It didn't recognize my
>> >> >> Audiophile2496 as far as I can tell--it configured the onboard
>> >> >> sound.  Can you tell
>> >> >> me more specifically what you did to get the Audiophile 2496
>> working?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Thanks,
>> >> >> Mike
>
>




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