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?

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=&quot;aljordan(a)maine.rr.com&quot;&gt; >> >> > 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 &lt;mpm(a)alumni.caltech.edu&gt; >> > 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

<quote who="Fernando Lopez-Lezcano"> 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=&quot;aljordan(a)maine.rr.com&quot;&gt; >> >> >> >> > 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=M >> >> >idiman >> >> > %2FMAudio&card=Delta+Audiophile+2496.&chip=ICE1712+%28Envy24%29&mod >> >> >ule=ice 1712#aso >> >> > >> >> > Alan >> >> > >> >> > ----- Original Message ----- >> >> > From: Michael Mossey &lt;mpm(a)alumni.caltech.edu&gt; >> >> > 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

<quote who="Fernando Lopez-Lezcano"> 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.

<quote who="Fernando Lopez-Lezcano"> Running that gives me: alsa-lib-1.0.6-3 alsa-utils-1.0.6-3 alsa-lib-devel-1.0.6-3

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.

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.

On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 11:21, Michael Mossey wrote: 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

-- Fernandp

On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 20:44, Michael Mossey wrote: Should be the onboard controller... Loaded with no problems?? Is it there? Do a: /sbin/lsmod and see if the module is in the list of loaded modules.

If so then it recognized your card... So what happens if you check what cards are loaded? cat /proc/asound/cards and which devices are part of those cards: cat /proc/asound/devices

-- Fernando

Okay, I reinstalled FC3 and now alsamixer runs and sees the Audiophile 2496. I have yet to see if sound comes out of it, but I'll get to that.

Thanks again for your help. I can't get sound to come out of it, though. It works in Windows. Then I boot in linux, aplay a sound file, run alsamixer and fiddle with the controls waiting to hear sound. Haven't yet heard sound. Part of the problem is that I don't understand the alsamixer controls--I don't know how to route the "main sound channel" to the "analog outputs" nor how to set its volume. I'm thinking of installing PlanetCCRMA which will probably have much better mixers. Can someone tell me how to set alsamixer in a basic way, anyway?

On 4/19/05, Brett McCoy &lt;idragosani(a)chapelperilous.net&gt; wrote: Could it be that alsamixer is actually looking at your onboard sound instead of the 2496?

The problem is that turning up different sliders did not result in any sound. There are also many choices and configurations of other things. I played with it for a while, then decided rather than try every single combination I would hope that someone could tell me how to get it working. Question: does it work "on the fly"?

I.e., should sound come out while I'm running alsamixer, or do I have to quit it first?