sound problem, Slackware 13- 37 envy24 mixer needed
 

I have an M Audio Audiophile 2496 sound card that needs
the Envy24 mixer. I know Envy24 is provided my Alsa, but
I have installed whatever Alsa files I could find on the
install DVD and still no Envy24 has been installed.
I ran alsa-info.sh and it says my Audiophile 2496 is card 1.
I don't understand why, since I have disabled the motherboard's
sound circuit in the BIOS. That sound circuit is still card 0.
Anyway, how do I get the Envy24 mixer installed in Slackware ?

What is the output of 'aplay -l'?

Adam

sound problem, Slackware 13 - 37 envy24 mixer needed
 

Output of aplay -l
bash-4.1# aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: M2496 [M Audio Audiophile 24/96], device 0: ICE1712 multi [ICE1712 multi]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
bash-4.1#

I could not find a Slackware package for alsa-tools. Alsa-tools builds
the envy24control mixer. So I got the source from the Alsa site:
alsa-tools-1.0.24.1.tar.bz2
I've read you're not suppose to use anything but Slackware packages
to install otherwise you could mess up the package manager.
I hope that is not true because I'm going to have to install this
alsa-tools bz2 if an old Slackware 12.2 file, called
envy24control-1.0.17-i486-1rha.tgz
does not work. That's all I could find on the internet.
Does anyone know of anything better to use ?

You won't need a slackware package. Just extract alsa-tools-1.0.24.1.tar.bz2 and change to folder envy24control. Run ./configure and make and you will get a binary file called envy24control which you can move wherever you want and run from there.

Bear in mind that your first sound card is the HDMI audio chip attached to your video card. There's a good chance that many/most/all applications will try to use that device by default. You can either blacklist snd_hda_intel or created a ~/.asoundrc file that specifies the envy24 as the default.

Adam