Ok im having problems getting any control over my soundcard with any mixer.I've been using the Creative Digital DIN for about 6 months without having much control other than the Wave settings in alsamixer.This has been fine cause I have a sound system with remote so I could mute and change volume with that but now I need to be able to use my mic.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls /dev/snd controlC0 controlC2 controlC4 controlC6 hwC0D0 pcmC0D0c pcmC0D1c pcmC0D3p controlC1 controlC3 controlC5 controlC7 midiC0D0 pcmC0D0p pcmC0D2c timer As you can see above there is no native ALSA mixer device created and I have to force an OSS mixer from modules.conf with the following in modules.conf. alias char-major-116 snd alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1 # module options should go here post-install snd-emu10k1 alsactl restore pre-remove snd-emu10k1 alsactl store # OSS/Free portion alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 # card #1 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss alias /dev/sound snd-card-0 alias /dev/sound/mixer snd-mixer-oss alias /dev/sound/dsp* snd-pcm-oss alias /dev/sound/audio* snd-pcm-oss alias /dev/sound/adsp* snd-pcm-oss I thought this was because of using the digital DIN and neither ALSA nor OSS knew exactly what to do with it except dump the sound out.So after about a week I talked myself into taking a digital I/O board that came with my Soyo dragon ultra platinum mobo and soldering it to the pins on my SB Live.I managed to get optical working without frying my sound card, but once again im left without proper sound and no native or OSS mixer.I cant get 5:1 working with optical either just 2:1.I've tried the OSS module with the new optical and can get my mic working but no mic volume control and even then I can only get front and rear channels or front and center channels but not at the same time.A couple months ago I was bored and installed the crossover/crap plugin and just by mistake drug my mouse across the sound control then low and behold the sound went down then back up.Needless to say this annoyed the hell out of me since I had never been able to get anything to control the volume with digital DIN.I've taken several hours a month since reading all I could but have never found a way around this problem.I could use analog and then turn on upmixing from my sound system but I want digital thats why I bought the sound system in the first place.If anyone has this sound card and uses the digital DIN or optical please help me get this working properly before I lose it completely.It doesnt matter if I use digital DIN or optical as long as I can use a mixer so I can use my mic. Specs: LFS www.linuxfromscratch.org ALSA 9.6 gonna upgrade to 9.7 tomarrow SB Live 5:1 Digital Environment model #SB0100 Creative Inspire 5700 On a side not when trying to find out how to solder a toslink to this sound card I ran across these add on boards for SB Live at www.opticompo.com.Now in the FAQ section it states this. "Do POCAB, POAB and POFP work with all SB Live! models? In principle - yes. But this means that the SB Live! release must have an internal extension pinout (mostly a double-rowed 40-pin header) to attach the POAB, POCAB or POFP. Some SB Live! models are known to have no such extension header like the model no. SB0220 or SB0100 (see the PCB label): Both are often sold with the extension "Digital" to their name and in general available for quite a low price." Well I do have one of those model #'s and I do have that 40 pin header which just confused me even more. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
