If you have the speakers connected to the card only through SPDIF, the mixer (any mixer under alsa) will be ineffective.
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Peter Duffy wrote: > I'm currently having some fairly horrendous problems getting alsa to > work with a SB Live! card. The system is red hat 7.2 with kernel 2.4.19; > the alsa driver package is 0.9.0rc7; /proc/pci gives "Multimedia audio > controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10K1 (rev.7)". > > The install of driver, lib and utils proceeds without a hitch; I run > alsaconf, which successfully detects the card and configures > /etc/modules.conf; the modules all load without any obvious issues > (nothing suspicious in either the output of dmesg or /var/log/messages - > except for a mention that the card is sharing IRQ 5 with two other > cards.) I open a mixer application and crank up the levels (just before > someone asks!). Everything OK: the modules load perfectly. But - no > sound at all, from any application which I've tried so far. (The native > emu10k1 driver in the 2.4.19 kernel source (built as a module) works > fine.) > > After wrestling with this for the entire week-end, I'm basically out of > ideas. If anyone's got any clues, or has seen similar issues, I'd be > really grateful to hear about it. (I should point out that, on my > machine at work, which contains an Ensoniq es1371 card, I got alsa 0.9.0 > to work without a problem.) > -- > Peter Duffy > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.NET email is sponsored by: > SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! > http://www.vasoftware.com > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
