Hi! It seems that several (all?) applications which use alsa need libalsa2-devel to run. They search for /usr/lib/libasound.so which is in that package.
I noticed this with alsamixer and xine. alsamixer e.g. quits immediatly with an error message if libalsa2-devel is not installed. After reintsalling this package (I recently removed all unrequired -devel packages from my system), it works again. -- Michael Reinsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://mr.uue.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------