I'm trying to get Alsa working well with my SB Live! 5.1+ card. I'm using the 2.5.14 kernel. My alsa (-lib, -util) is from "cvs update -D '8 may 2002'", as I read somewhere RC1 was missing files and the current CVS doesn't compile for me (something integer64-related that happened later that day). (Did I just pick a bad time to pull?)
Digital output is working, but I don't have much control. alsamixer is not working well. The "master", "PCM", "Center", "LFE", etc. controls do nothing. (Do some of those only apply to analog output? Or is this a bug?) The only control that does anything is the second of two labelled "EMU10K1 PCM". It does vary the volume. It doesn't seem to have the mute option. I really don't understand all the different controls in the mixer - the labels seem pretty redundant even when they aren't exactly the same. Plus, it apparently shows toggles as sliders, with the toggle done by muting; pretty confusing. I would like to use analog surround output. (*) How do I switch this? After doing a "alsactl store", I see a toggle called "SB Live Analog/Digital Output Jack" in /etc/asound.state. I flipped it to "false" and ran "alsactl restore". I then get no sound on either digital or analog. I played around with mixer settings, no go. Any ideas would be much appreciated. (*) - As I understand it, there's no way to get digital 5.1 output in Windows games, since the card doesn't have an AC-3 encoder. Since it is possible to get DVD surround sound output with analog (it does have an AC-3 decoder and outputs for all six channels), I'd like to always keep it on analog for consistency. If I'm wrong and I can get get AC-3 from Counterstrike, I'll be quite happy using digital output. -- Scott Lamb _______________________________________________________________ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
