ALSA & emu10k1

jaduff · n00b Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Posts: 15

lo

I'm trying to play around with ALSA, I have a sblive! value, the only hard connection from cd to sound card is front speaker only. How do I get alsa to mirror the sound from the cd to the rear speakers as well? Please don't tell me to use that damn xmms-cdread plugin, its skippy, bleh. Or, if this is a dumb question with no possible answer, that too would be acceptable :wink:

Also, does anyone know of a good gui mixer that can control both front and rear channels with one control?

alsa-driver version 0.9.0_rc6
kernel 1.4.20_r2 (gentoo sources)
kde 3.1.1

thanks for any help
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azlan · Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2003 10:45 pm Post subject:

alsamixergui

this works pretty well for me

I haven't had a problem with the rear speakers though.

although I noticed that the best way to do this driver is to emerge alsa-driver no card options otherwise it won't compile the snd-seq-oss stuff and you won't be able to load sound fonts
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jaduff · n00b Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Posts: 15

Ahhhh, I compiled with a sound card specified, should try it without... ta for the hint

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HighwayStar · Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2003 3:16 am Post subject:

I emerged alsa like this:

networx · Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2003 12:23 pm Post subject:

I have the same problem with the line-in (actually aux2 on the live!drive); the sound only comes from the two front speakers.
I am using ALSA too.

Somebody suggested sampling the line-in and outputting that using the soundcards DSP (because wave is echoed to the rear speakers).
Unfortunately I lack the programming skills to implement such a solution

(not to mention that it would probably introduce some lag, and the idea just sounds sloppy, to say the least)

Besides, in windows it works okay almost right out of the box, so I think there must be some kind of setting or whatever in the emu10k1 which enables this...

pilo · Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2003 3:31 pm Post subject:

I got rid of ALSA and went for the EMU10K1, http://emu10k1.sourceforge.net/, driver after desperately trying to get my FourPointSurround to work. Just compile, modprobe the module, and increase the volume of ogain (rear), what was I did. Or not really, first I reinstalled to get rid of all alsa-linked packages, but that's not neccessary.
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