Re: [Alsa-user] Real master volume for 5.1 SB Live
this is exactly my problem too! Great respect and many thanx to the alsa developers, but I get endless rows of sliders in alsamixer, some control this, some control that, some control both. is there a way to find out wich sliders do what and why and which ones to leave allone out there? ( it seems the onboard card is way much simler it only shows 1/3 of the controls ) bye, Matthijs. On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Robert [iso-8859-2] Gomu³ka wrote: Hello, I used to use stereo speakers to listen to my PC. It worked ok. But I wanted more and bought 5.1 speaker set and connected it to my SB Live soundcard. Almost everything works now. Almost. When I had only two speakers connected to one audio output, I could control whole volume with one slider. In KDE (kmix), xmms, others ... Now most programs, which I use, control only one pair of my speaker set. It drives me crazy. 6 speakers, but when I want to control all of them, I have to do some magick with alsamixer/other mixers. It isn't easy anymore. I have to control volume with pseudo-remote attached to speaker set. Even using alsamixer I have to move two or more strange-named sliders to control all speakers. Could it be easier? In my dream I go back to the past and use master control to control global volume and other controls to control front/rear/left/right/whatever combination speakers. Can it be done with SB Live routing or something? I use Debian Linux SID, kernel 2.6.5, ALSA drivers attached to kernel source. Can you give me more information? Or send me to more proper place to ask my questions? I spent some time searching google and found no satisfying resolution to my problem, which I repeat at the end - I cannot control volume of my all 6 speakers connected to SB Live with one volume slider. Regards, Robert PS. All 6 speakers work with no problems. Movies with surround sound I watch with pleasure (with mplayer). --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: GNOME Foundation Hackers Unite! GUADEC: The world's #1 Open Source Desktop Event. GNOME Users and Developers European Conference, 28-30th June in Norway http://2004/guadec.org ___ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: GNOME Foundation Hackers Unite! GUADEC: The world's #1 Open Source Desktop Event. GNOME Users and Developers European Conference, 28-30th June in Norway http://2004/guadec.org ___ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
[Alsa-user] Mixer settings.
Hello, I am a bit new to alsa since my applications worked better with oss before. I own a emu10k1 card. I know, the driver has everything unmuted by default, so I use the amix program to set the sound in startup, I noticed the following: My soundcard has about a dozen or more devices. Most of them are hard to guess what they do. When I use alsamixer I have so many sliders, that its kinda hard to find wich one to pull. some of them also seem to interact wich eachother making it possible to use different mixing setups? Is there any convenient mixer that doesnt let me fumble around and just gives me a simple set of sliders? I only have a set of nasty old pcspeakers for my sound here so I realy don't bother with any of the advanced options. And is there any documentation about what all the other sliders mean? I can guess Master and PCM but some of the mixer controls seem rather obscure. If it allows you to do anything funky with this card ( like i've seen some years ago in win98 ) it would be fun. bye, Matt. --- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356alloc_id=3438op=click ___ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
[Alsa-user] Multiple wave
Hello, I own an emu10k1 card, and I've always used multiple applications at the same time sharing the pcm; I always thought this was normal ( it was my first sound card apart from a soundblaster 8 ) with pci soundcards. that was using oss, lately I tried alsa as I came across an onboard card that couldnt play multiple wave streams. so, now two questions: I noticed that my emu10k1 with alsa could play multiple wave streams too, when the applications were alsa enabled. ( tried with aplay) But I noticed too, that the oss emulation ( as I use several apllications that are only oss at the same time during performing) was not capable of doing this. Is there a way to fix this? dmix seems to be the way but it doesn't work with oss emulation. also the onboard thing could not play multiple waves with alsa either. I this a common thing for today's sound chips? or is it simply a driver issue? for the first time I understand the need for stupid things like esd and arts... Is there any documentation wich cards can play multiple streams or not? its not even mentioned in advertisements for those cards... I'm curious to know if there's anybody else experiencing the same issues; The thing is I know about jack and I like it, but may of the applications I prefer to use are just really simple and old or only have oss implementations, and work just fine in combination with my older emu10k1; but now I'm going to buy new hardware it becomes an issue... cheers, Matthijs. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ ___ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
