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

Michael Mossey mpm at alumni.caltech.edu
Tue Apr 19 01:09:09 EDT 2005


<quote who="Fernando Lopez-Lezcano">
> On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 20:57, Michael Mossey wrote:
>> <quote who="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
>>
>> Running that gives me:
>>
>> alsa-lib-1.0.6-3
>> alsa-utils-1.0.6-3
>> alsa-lib-devel-1.0.6-3
>
> Fine, check the integrity of the install:
>   rpm -V alsa-lib alsa-utils alsa-lib-devel

Hi, thanks for the help.

rpm -V reports "one of the dependecies is missing" for many different
modules.

I am running /usr/lib/alsamixer

I did try to install an OSS driver--maybe that screwed things up?  Maybe I
will just reinstall FC3 and start over.

-Mike


>
>> When I try to run alsamixer I get:
>>
>> alsamixer: error while loading shared libraries: libasound.so.2: cannot
>> open shared object file: No such file or directory
>>
>> I found libasound.so.2 in /lib.
>
> That's where it should be in fc3.
>
>> Adding /lib to my LD_LIBRARY_PATH did not
>> help.  Symlinking /usr/lib/libasound.so.2 to /lib/libasound.so.2 did not
>> do anything.
>
> Very strange. Which alsamixer are you running? Do:
>   which alsamixer
> That should return /usr/bin/alsamixer. Or run "/usr/bin/alsamixer"
> explicitly to make sure you are not running another binary.
>
> If the rpm verify command above does not report missing files and
> alsamixer is the original then I don't know what's going on.
>
> -- Fernando
>
>
>




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