Hi, Thanks for the quick reply. I have been researching this for literally weeks and have gotten nowhere. One of the things I had previously checked (and should have made mention of in the original post) was the libaoss.so binary itself: # file /usr/lib/libaoss.so.0.0.0 /usr/lib/libaoss.so.0.0.0: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped # file /usr/lib64/libaoss.so.0.0.0 /usr/lib64/libaoss.so.0.0.0: setuid setgid ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), stripped The one in /usr/lib64 is the one that came with one of the OS packages. The one in /usr/lib is the one I compiled from source..."make install" placed it in that directory. In fact I had recompiled and it just yesterday in failed attempts to get it working: # ls -al /usr/lib/libaoss* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 77154 2008-04-28 16:35 /usr/lib/libaoss.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 853 2008-04-28 16:35 /usr/lib/libaoss.la* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2008-04-28 16:35 /usr/lib/libaoss.so -> libaoss.so.0.0.0* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2008-04-28 16:35 /usr/lib/libaoss.so.0 -> libaoss.so.0.0.0* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 59452 2008-04-28 16:35 /usr/lib/libaoss.so.0.0.0* I tried hard-coding both /usr/lib/libaoss.so.0.0.0 and /usr/lib64/libaoss.so.0.0.0 (separately) in the /usr/bin/aoss wrapper script but they both met the same fate. Thanks for your help. -Derek ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: libaoss.so fails preloading Date: Tuesday 29 April 2008 From: James Pearson <james-p@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: Derek Wickersham <derek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> My guess is that you don't have the 64 bit libaoss.so installed - which will be at /usr/lib64/libaoss.so (or you have the 64 libaoss.so in /usr/lib) Even if your firefox binary is 32 bit, the wrapper scripts will be run through a 64 bit shell, so it is probably the script shell that is complaining it can't find /usr/lib64/libaoss.so ('$LIB' gets expanded by ld.so to be 'lib' or 'lib64' depending on the binary being linked) James Pearson ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user