I would highly recommend using the planetccrma fedora core 3 packages. See http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/ I just started using the Audiophile 2496 along with the onboard sound of my motherboard and the planetccrma kernel and packages work flawlessly. They have a package called envy24control or something like that which works very well with the 2496. Hope this helps, Alan ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Mossey <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Saturday, April 16, 2005 11:47 pm Subject: [linux-audio-user] audiophile 2496 with Fedora Core 3 > Hello, > I'm new to the Linux sound world. I'm trying to get an Audiophile > 2496 to > work on Fedora Core 3. I was able to install the OSS driver; > however, it > isn't putting sound out the SPDIF output, which is what I want. I > triedto run alsamixer but got a message > > alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device or > address > > Searching the web I see many people claim to get the Audiophile 2496 > working but they describe how they did it in very general terms > that I > don't understand. > > Can anyone help, or point me to the right forum if this isn't it? > > Thanks so much, > Mike > >