On 9/20/06, Clemens Ladisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > kyle cronan wrote: > > Jjust wondering if someone can enlighten me on an unusual debugging > > experience... I use iec958 to output to some speakers that are at a > > set volume, so I painstakingly created this asound.conf file to make > > things work just right: > > ... > > Your asound.conf doesn't mention an iec958 output.
I think I just set up my default mixer element to control softvol on the default pcm device. Which affects the iec958 as well. I think. I just pieced together the conf file from examples online--I don't really understand too much about all this. > > I thought I'd never need to fiddle with this asound.conf stuff again. > > Then, I upgraded to the 2.6.15 kernel (from 2.6.12). I started > > getting really crackly sound with this configuration (at least with > > mplayer). > > Which mplayer version? What output device did you tell mplayer to use? This was with mplayer (1.0_pre8) going to the default output device. Setting the output device to dmix resulted in okay sound... but i'm not sure whether I had volume control. It was around this time I figured out that I didn't need any config file anymore. > > After much more fiddling and banging my head against the > > wall (i've discovered dmix plugins, route plugins, plug plugins, ...), > > I eventually discovered that the solution was to delete my asound.conf > > file. Arhhrg!! > > > > What happened here? Does my alsa device driver perhaps now default to > > using a softvol-type filter on the iec958 output? > > Only if your codec doesn't have a master volume control. Which codec > does your mainboard have? (see /proc/asound/cards) Oh right. And sorry, I said intel8x0 but I screwed up. Actually I'm using hda-intel now. The codec is Realtek ALC880. Kyle > > Regards, > Clemens > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
