[expert] ML 9.2 + Audigy2 + 5.1 + xine

[Adrian Golumbovici]

Hi all,   I just installed ML 9.2 and was nicely surprised that a lot of the many usual "needfull things" :) worked right out of the box (including painless Radeon 9700 and nforce2 drivers).   My main problem now is that though my card is recognised and the "audigy" module is loaded, it works only halfway right. That means that "stereo" sounds work ok (like xmms and such). On the other hand I tried to play a DVD with Xine and almost went nuts. Since the DVD is 5.1 and my recognized soundcard is 5.1 compatible, I expected surround sound on my 5.1 system. No go... I could hear only the front speakers and of course in a lot of scenes the voices were probably on some other speakers as the were very dim although the sound itself (background music and soundeffects) was pretty loud. I thought I have to adjust the sound, but surprisingly in kmix I found only the normal stereo settings to be available. I tried to install the emu10k1 driver from sourceforge, but it spits out a lot of "undefinded symbol" in a lot of other sound modules (weird why it should complain as I do not use those modules at all) when trying to load it and of course it doesn't load -> no sound. :(   In a last attempt I compiled and installed the latest alsa, but the result was even funnier. xmms and the system sounds work ok (I even hear them in all my speakers), but xine gives no sound output when playing a dvd. The only way to get xine to play some sound is to start it with "xine -A oss", but then am back to square 1 as I still can hear only 2 speakers and no voices no matter how I play with the settings in alsamixer with the 3D and surround settings. I tried to start xine from console to see the output and it complains that it cannot access surround51 device and to check if any other process uses PCM. :/ Have no clue how to find out what that means and how to fix the problem. :(   Funny stuff is that in ML 9.1 I could compile and install emu10k1 with no problem and had 5.1 surround sound. :/ Unfortunatelly on 9.1 had lots of problems with motherboard and video drivers so cannot fall back. :(   If anyone could help I would really appreciate it. That is the only thing which keeps me from booting ML as my main OS. :(   Best regards, Adrian