On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 00:33 +0200, Ron Smits wrote: > Evening all > > A few weeks ago my trusty emul10k1 card died. I loved that card. I > especially loved the fact that whatever I threw at it, all my speakers > from my 5.1 set would work. > > Now I have a soundblaster live! 24bits the ca0106 chipset. Only when I > have a real 5.1 clip, will all the speakers jump into action. Reading on > the net about all the possibilities to use .asoundrc thingies to get it > to work (most don't btw), I finally gave up. When I want to listen to > some really good music, I switch to my headset :( >
The ca0106 is to the emu10k1 as a Winmodem is to a real modem. It's barely supported and we have no good docs on it. > Now the idea, I have the feeling that the alsa material is aimed towards > the card and not towards the speakerset that is attached to it. How hard > would it be to make a dialog/druid/wizard thingy that would just ask you > what speakerset you have and set up all the stuff that is needed to have > great sound from all speakers whatever you throw at it? Very, very difficult - we do not have enough information on the hardware we support to make this work reliably. Maybe you should be more specific with your use case. You want to play a stereo source and have it upmixed to 5.1? Lee ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
