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Old 05-31-2011, 10:46 AM   #1
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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 ?
 
Old 05-31-2011, 11:24 AM   #2
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What is the output of 'aplay -l'?

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Old 05-31-2011, 09:00 PM   #3
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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 ?
 
Old 05-31-2011, 11:46 PM   #4
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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.
 
Old 06-01-2011, 04:31 AM   #5
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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.

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