[Alsa-user] ALSA library problem?

[Steven F. <sf...@io...>]

I can use ALSA with the oss emulator, but I can not get the native
ALSA to work. From my search if seams that these symptoms are normally
asocated with library problems.

I seam to be having two problems with ALSA, they may however be
related to one another. The first problem is most likely a general
Linux problem, but I'll ask it here because it maybe related to my
second problem.

I can't seam to get my system to look for libraries in the
/usr/local/bin directory. To keep my system "under control" I place
files that are not under RPM control in the /usr/local directory.

When I try to execute amixer alsamixer or aplay I get the 
following ...
 
amixer: error while loading shared libraries: libasound.so.2: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory

I've went ahead and created symbolic links in the dir /usr/lib/ for
each of the files libasound.* . Now when I run amixer and alsamixer I
get these errors...

amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such file or directory
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or 
directory
aplay: main:447: audio open error: No such file or directory




RELEVENT INFORMATION

alsa-driver-0.9.0rc3 alsa-lib-0.9.0rc3  alsa-utils-0.9.0rc3

> cat /etc/ld.so.conf
/usr/kerberos/lib
/usr/X11R6/lib
/usr/lib/qt-2.3.1/lib
/usr/lib/sane
/usr/lib/wine
/usr/local/lib

> rpm -q glibc
glibc-2.2.4-19.3