On 9/26/07, Michael Schreckenbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <SNIP> > > afaik those are all default values, except audio.alsa_hw_mixer:0. > I don't think, that's a problem. > Does xine play every sound through the wrong device or only DVDs (5.1)? > Maybe there's a stale asoundrc in your home, somehow > redirecting "plug:surround51:0" to the second device? > > I'm out of ideas now, it seems :( > > Regards, > Michael >
Hi Michael, Thanks for responding. As I stated in the original thread, long since cast the the email bone pile, the only application that seems to have a problem on this machine is xine. Aqualung (an audio file & CD player) sends audio to the Intel chip. mplayer, playing DVDs, sends audio to the Intel chip. Only xine by default is sending audio to the external USB converter. The problem in xine is not specific to DVDs. It does the same thing playing CDs. Note that with Aqualung I can reroute audio to the external USB converter by purposely routing audio to the ':1' sound device, exactly as Alsa should perform I believe. As far as I can tell the machine has neither an asound.state file or any .asoundrc files: dragonfly ~ # slocate .asoundrc dragonfly ~ # slocate asound.state /var/lib/alsa/asound.state dragonfly ~ # Also, the problem is not specific to a user. It happens in my account, my wife's account and my son's account. It seems to be a global issue. As background, I have a second machine with dual sound cards. It has the same generic Intel HDA audio device in it. It's second sound card is an RME HDSP9652. xine works fine on that machine. Audio goes to the Intel chip as it should. I'm at a complete loss on this one. It's starting to feel as if it might be an Alsa issue and specific to USB audio. As I've gotten no response from the xine-users list and this seems to be beyond the typical Gentoo issue I suppose I might try those folks, assuming no one else here has any experiments for me to try. Thanks again for your help. Cheers, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
