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

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 12:25, Michael Mossey wrote:
> <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.

"alsa" is not just one package, try:
  rpm -q -a | grep ^alsa

-- Fernando