At Thu, 02 Jan 2003 10:40:56 +0100, Benny Sjostrand wrote: > > > > > > >Actually the drive that I use to send sound to the rears speakers is > >"h:0,1" not "h:1,0". That's because the rear speakers controller is just > >a subdevice of my first and only sound card. That works with no problems > >sending sound only to the rear speakers but not to the four speakers. > >I'm looking for a way to create surround sound using the four speakers. > >There must be a way. Help please! > > > > > > > Oops! sorry for my misstake, I mean hw:0,0 -> front speakers and > hw:0,1-> rear speakers (assuming that you got only one soundcard > installed). In such way it's possible to control each speaker > independently, programs like xine can take advantage of this. > > Then, whatever you want to do is just a software issue. It's not > possible to send the same output to front and rear just via a simple > "aplay ...", maybe it's possible to do magic via the .asoundrc stuff > crearting a virtual device, but I dont know how to do that.
the latest alsa-lib cvs tree already includes the definition for cs46xx. you'll be able to play a 4-channel wav file like % aplay -Dsurround40 4channels.wav Takashi ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel