This is somewhat related to the recent "sound in only 20 out of 4 speakers" thread.
Like that thread's originator, I'm running Mandrake 9, with the ALSA sound driver, on a SB Live card. In addition, neither aumix nor Kmix seem able to get all 4 of my speakers working in ALSA, though extensive fiddling with them got surround working in OSS.
Presumably a competent mixer could solve this for me, and I've downloaded the gamix tarball (1.99.p13), but there I run into a different problem, one I've noticed for several programs: when running "./configure", the script eventually stops on the following:
checking for libasound headers version >= 0.5.0... not present.
configure: error: Sufficiently new version of libasound not found.
I get the exact same problem trying to configure the alsa-xmms plugin for XMMS (0.9.5), except there it's "version >= 0.9.0" instead of "0.5.0".
Running "locate libasound" returns
/usr/lib/libasound.so.2
/usr/lib/libasound.so.2.0.0
so the stuff is there. I tried delving into the configure scripts, but they're way above me -- ie, I can find where the error message gets printed, but I couldn't figure out exactly why it prints.
Has anyone else had this problem? Does anyone have any ideas? Could these programs just be looking for libasound in the wrong place?
Thanks in advance,
Ed Halter
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