On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 00:20 +1100, Peter Hardy wrote: > So, I have a sound card with a CM8738 chipset, that I picked up from > Dick Smith fairly cheaply. I'm using it with a set of Logitech 5.1 > surround speakers, with plain old analogue connections (three 3.5mm > stereo connections). > > This all sounds great, and the driver works reasonably well. But the > driver on my ubuntu hardy machine (kernel version 2.6.24-12-generic) has > one glaring problem - it's only able to control the volume for the > front-left and front-right channels. In stereo mode this is fine, but in > 5.1 mode the other three channels are pegged at max volume. > > So, can anybody recommend a sound card? I'm looking for: > - 5.1 surround support, with analogue output > - reasonably cheap, and reasonably good quality > - good linux driver support
00:07.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP65 High Definition Audio (rev a1) I have a brand new standard PC system using Ubuntu Hardy, sound card above. 5.1 with logitech works great :-) I think I had to set the preferences on the sound control first though. So check first (double click speaker icon, edit, preferences) -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
