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



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