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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    Re: [Cooker] libalsa needs /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf from
From:       Borsenkow Andrej <Andrej.Borsenkow () mow ! siemens ! ru>
Date:       2002-06-30 6:50:26
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χ σ Τ, 29.06.2002, Χ 23:17, Michael Reinsch ΞΑΠΙΣΑΜ:
> 
> I did some further research on this topic and realized that I got 
> something wrong: it is not because of libasound.so as I said before. It 
> seems to depend on /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf which it (alsamixer in the 
> case below) tries to open:
> 
> stat64("/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf", 0xbffff300) = -1 ENOENT (No such file 
> or directory)
> write(2, "ALSA lib control.c:601:(snd_ctl_"..., 47ALSA lib 
> control.c:601:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) ) = 47
> 
> If you install libalsa2-devel, alsamixer works. If you remove 
> libalsa2-devel but keep alsa.conf, alsamixer works also. If you remove 
> alsa.conf, alsamixer doesn't work.
> 

That makes sense. I too was surprised because those ALSA programs I was
interested in were correctly linked with versioned libasound.

Probably we need something like alsa-common or just libalsa without
version like GNOME2 application currently do.

-andrej

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