> > I want to test out the 5.1 capabilities of my new computer/sound system > > combination. > > Might be stating the obvious, but is there a demo sound file on the > driver CD that came with your sound card?
didn't get a cd and if i did i probably would have thrown it in the pile of windows driver cd's (even if it had linux drivers, chances are something more up to date would be on the web anyway) This is a mini-itx board, which has 6 channel sound with a digital (spdif rca) output. I got the board second hand, and no cd. I am using the alsa driver from our well known and loved kernel. (Yes I know that the still-seperately-developed-in-parallel alsa driver might be newer, but in this case diff shows the driver has not changed since 2002, and is the same in alsa-driver 1.08 as in the recent kernels) But good thinking, I might try downloading the windows drivers from via to see if they have sample sounds in them. -- Nick Rout
