From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lee Revell Subject: Re: Question: setting up the hardware for alsa Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 19:45:02 -0500 Message-ID: <1131237903.6781.22.camel@mindpipe> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: David Smoot Cc: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 09:49 -0600, David Smoot wrote: > 5. I copied libasound to my libraries folder. > > At this point I at least knew libasound was OK because I could > execute some simple code that listed libasound data types and > parameters. > > But I can't open any devices and talk to them. I know I am missing > some kind of crucial step in setting up the hw:0,0 device but I can't > seem to figure out the next step. I've read tutorials, googled, but I > am stuck. If someone would point me to the proper documents I would > be grateful. > Ah, this is the problem. It's not sufficient to just copy the libasound binary into your LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Alsa-lib needs these files too: /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf /usr/share/alsa/pcm/* /usr/share/alsa/cards/* Why not just run "make install" instead of trying to install alsa-lib by hand? Lee ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php