On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > > > > At Wed, 20 Feb 2002 08:50:23 -0500 (EST), > > > Adam K Kirchhoff wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > > > > > > > > At Mon, 18 Feb 2002 22:45:07 EST (-0500), > > > > > Adam K Kirchhoff wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm curious if anyone has gotten one of the ymfpci cards to work with > > > > > > > > > > > > front and rear output with the OSS emulation? Is it even supported at > > > > > > > > > > > > this point? > > > > > > > > > > (please note i myself didn't test the following:) > > > > > > > > > > the rear pcm assigned to device #2. so at first please check whether > > > > > the driver really supports rear speakers by playing via hw:0,2, i.e. > > > > > > > > It does.... Alsa has natively supported both the front and rear channels > > > > for a number of months now, iirc. > > > > > > > > > % aplay -Dhw:0,2 foo.wav > > > > > > > > Yep. That works fine. > > > > > > > > One of the first things I'm noticing now, however, is that the only Alsa > > > > application that seems to use the rear speakers is aplay, and only when > > > > specified. For example, alsaplayer will still only use the front > > > > speakers. > > > > > > it's a problem of alsaplayer. doesn't work "alsaplayer -d hw:0,2" ? > > > > Good question... That's something I haven't tried. I'll give it a shot > > when I get home. > > > > However, here's the thing... alsaplayer uses both the front and rear > > outputs with the SB Live! by default. No need to specify one or the > > other. > > > > Now, I understand that since so many more people have SB Live! cards > > driver development obviously isn't going to focus on the ymfpci cards as > > much, but I'm curious if this is something that can eventually be enabled? > > Is it an issue with the yamaha hardware? > > Yamaha hardware has some contraints. The signal route for rear speakers is > shared with the S/PDIF path, so you cannot use them at same time > simultaneously. That's interesting. I wasn't aware of that. Of course, I've never actually tried to use them at the same time, but that's certainly good to know. > It's no problem for us to add a new control for the rear > device (hw:0,2) which can control front speakers as well. We can also > invert hw:0,2 and hw:0,0 after that change, so the default working mode > will be "use front & rear speakers". That would be perfect. I'm curious though, is this also how it's done with the the emu10k1 drivers? Adam _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
