[PlanetCCRMA] snd and m-audio card

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 12:58, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 11:41, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 11:35, Oded Ben-Tal wrote:
> > > > Since the on-board card is card 0, how are you starting snd? It seems
> > > > that it thinks it's supposed to play with the first card and that's
> > > > what it's doing?
> > > > man snd doesn't tell me how to do a second card.
> > > 
> > > untill the last update setting:
> > > SNDLIB_ALSA_DEVICE=hw:1,0
> > > 
> > > did the trick (and = hw:0,0 for the other card). I also tried to look for 
> > > clues in the snd documantation about whether this has changed recently but 
> > > I didn't find anything. 
> > > anyone else has idea?
> > 
> > I do. This all works provided that snd is actually built with alsa
> > support instead of oss, in the current binary (fc3):
> > 
> >  > ldd /usr/bin/snd|grep asound
> > yields nothing....
> > 
> > Doh!!!
> > Bad packager!!
> > I'll see what went wrong in the build and update it asap...
> 
> Well, the build seems to be detecting the alsa library and include
> files, nothing that I can see is failing, but yet snd is not built with
> alsa. I finally gave up trying to find the real culprit and hacked my
> way around the problem. I'll send the details to Bill. A rebuild of 7.11
> is in progress and one preliminary test in fc3 indicates alsa is working
> again. 

There's a new snd 7.11 based build that (I hope) has proper ALSA
support... (fc3/2/1 & rh9)

-- Fernando