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matyilona200

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Registered: 2012-06-21

Posts: 77

[SOLVED]Unrecognized alsaequal

I would like to have some kind of systemwide equalizer, so I tried to istall alsaequal, as this wiki page said. I installed alsaequal without any problems. When I ried to run alsamixer -D equal I got this

[matyilona@myhost alsaequal]$ alsamixer -D equal
ALSA lib control.c:953:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL equal
cannot open mixer: No such file or directory

If I try to run alsaequal I get

[matyilona@myhost alsaequal]$ alsaequal
bash: alsaequal: command not found

I have alsa-plugins, and alsa-utils installed, but I'm not shure, if alsa-plugins is needed (I only installed it now).

Last edited by matyilona200 (2012-09-14 16:58:02)

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

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Re: [SOLVED]Unrecognized alsaequal

Did you create the ~/.asoundrc file as decribed in the wiki? I got the error you show until I created the .asoundrc file. After I created ~/.asoundrc, I got this error:

Failed to load plugin "/usr/lib/ladspa/caps.so": /usr/lib/ladspa/caps.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

And a little searching told me caps.so comes from the AUR "caps" package. Once I built and installed caps, "alsamixer -D equal" works.

[disclaimer] I am no sound expert, so there may be an easier way to do this [/disclaimer]

Last edited by 2ManyDogs (2012-09-13 21:35:22)

matyilona200

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Registered: 2012-06-21

Posts: 77

Re: [SOLVED]Unrecognized alsaequal

Than you for reminding me of ~/.asoundrc, accidently I was creating/editing ~/.asaundrc. Now I wanted to chek if I was doing it right and found, that last time I didn't copy pasted, as I did now. Its working fine now, with the right ~/.asoundrc, sorry for bothering you with such a silly mistake.

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

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Re: [SOLVED]Unrecognized alsaequal

No problem. I'm glad you got it working. We all make mistakes; I know I've made my share.

dunkles

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From: Chile

Registered: 2010-04-26

Posts: 67

Re: [SOLVED]Unrecognized alsaequal

Did you create the ~/.asoundrc file as decribed in the wiki? I got the error you show until I created the .asoundrc file. After I created ~/.asoundrc, I got this error:

Failed to load plugin "/usr/lib/ladspa/caps.so": /usr/lib/ladspa/caps.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

And a little searching told me caps.so comes from the AUR "caps" package. Once I built and installed caps, "alsamixer -D equal" works.

[disclaimer] I am no sound expert, so there may be an easier way to do this [/disclaimer]

i made the same thing, but equal not works, the program open, but the equalizer not have effect in the music tone...