Hi, I'm having two separate problems with my Sound Blaster Live! Value
card -- one related to four-speaker support, the other related to MIDI.
First, some system information:
[daniel@bok]/home/daniel(9): uname -a
Linux bok.har 2.4.17 #1 Sat Feb 9 09:44:48 PST 2002 i686 unknown
Debian Unstable
Installed ALSA Packages:
------------------------
alsa-base 0.9+0beta10-5
alsa-headers 0.9+0beta10-5
alsa-modules-2.4.17 0.9+0beta10-5+p0+bok.0
alsa-source 0.9+0beta10-5
alsa-utils 0.9.0beta10a-2
libasound1 0.5.10b-1
libasound2 0.9.0beta10a-3
libasound2-dev 0.9.0beta10a-3
Okay, now the problems:
1) When I play MIDI files, only my front speakers are used. With
Wave output, only my rear speakers are used. I'd prefer if all
four speakers were used in both cases. :)
I've tried playing around with the settings in alsamixer, but I
couldn't find any way to change the situation. I presume it has
something to do with the way the routing is set up on the card, but
the information in SB-Live-mixer.txt is either too lacking or too far
over my head for me to understand. :)
I can send the output of amixer if necessary, although I'm currently
just using whichever control settings the drivers default to.
2) I'm having trouble getting MIDI working. I'd like to use it to play
MIDI files on the card's synth, and later, to hook up a keyboard via
the game port. Here are the modules loaded by Debian's alsa init.d
script:
[daniel@bok]/home/daniel(1): lsmod
Module Size Used by Tainted: P
snd-seq-oss 23264 0 (unused)
snd-seq-midi-event 2920 0 [snd-seq-oss]
snd-seq 37004 2 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event]
snd-pcm-oss 35744 0 (unused)
snd-mixer-oss 9184 0 [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-card-emu10k1 1984 0
snd-emu10k1 48832 0 [snd-card-emu10k1]
snd-pcm 48576 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-emu10k1]
snd-timer 10304 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm]
snd-rawmidi 12576 0 [snd-emu10k1]
snd-hwdep 3680 0 [snd-emu10k1]
snd-ac97-codec 23232 0 [snd-emu10k1]
snd-util-mem 1280 0 [snd-emu10k1]
snd-seq-device 3760 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-card-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi]
snd 24520 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq
snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-card-emu10k1 snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi
snd-hwdep snd-ac97-codec snd-util-mem snd-seq-device]
soundcore 3588 8 [snd]
"modprobe snd-synth-emu10k1" adds
snd-synth-emu10k1 3712 0 (unused)
snd-synth-emux 23488 0 [snd-synth-emu10k1]
With these modules loaded, pmidi -l doesn't list any open ports. I
_am_ able to use sfxload to load soundfonts, and "playmidi -a" to
play them on the card's synth, however. What am I missing?
Thanks in advance for any advice you can give me!
Daniel
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