ca0106 yet another issue with 5.1(NOT ALSA just no 5.1)LOOK!

Seige36 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Dec 2005 Posts: 101

well i have 2.1 sound with my SB audigy LS but its VERY distorted its not if i turn it down but when i reset alsa it almost blows my speakers! lol but i finally have mic in! my cmedia 9880 didnt support it(alsa didnt) so i moved here and mic works but 5.1 doesn my front and center speakers dont put out sound and i know its not the card because my live! 24 bit does same thing. ive checked mixerlevels tried with modules and built in kernel alsa.. any pointers would help! and btw alsaconf detects my card.. thanks

seige

bushk · Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 11:50 pm Post subject:

if it's music you're worried about, fear not.

unless you're talking about multichannel dvd-audio or super-audio (very eclectic and poorly known niche) you're talking about 2channel sound. that is, sound that should ONLY be reproduced in the 2 front speakers. now, either with in-line crossovers or audio filtering done in the sound processor, you can get the sub to fire too. if you want any more than that, you're breaking the audiophile's first rule (using more speakers than channels), but alas, many people bought 5.1 systems and then realized music isn't encoded in that, so there's an overabundance of methods to use those speakers - 'though as an audio enthusiast, i must discourage all these methods - such as channel mirroring (stereo x2), ProLogic/ProLogic2 filtering (pl/pl2), and many variations there of.
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Seige36 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Dec 2005 Posts: 101

the thing is ive had even music with 2 channels playing 5.1 without copying the output... on gentoo before too so im still lost:P and whys it such a bad quality? plus my CMedia 9880 has 5.1 from 2 channel sound that i can use now but it hAS no mic support.. that i use everyday.. soooo its somethin in the config file oh and does this help?

http://pastebin.com/586141

thanks bushk

bushk · Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:17 am Post subject:

bushk · Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:20 am Post subject:

so far as how to use those, i can't help ya. my interest in alsa extends only so far as the best quality 2-channel audio reproduction possible.
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Seige36 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Dec 2005 Posts: 101

oh so even if i dont know it? and it does it on its own it copies all the outputs?
if thats true how do i copy them?

bushk · Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:50 am Post subject:

Seige36 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Dec 2005 Posts: 101

np i have a friend with same card i got his alsaconf and OMG lol sounds perfect but still now 5.1... and im workinon it now.. updates later
ok well nothin.. no 5.1..

Seige36 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Dec 2005 Posts: 101

ITS NOT ALSA i just need to set everything for 5.1 and i dont know what device that would be! but i can select hw:0,3 hw:0,2 hw:0,1 hw:0,0 hw:0,0 is the output! (so are the rest) but i cant set ALSA to use all at once? or to copy stereo to all 6 channels... does anyone know how? mplayer has a 5.1 option but it freezes every time i play something XMMS doesnt use all it just uses one... so thats more info! thanks
is there a way to setup alsa so it playes all 6 channels?
and if you have any files that might help thatd be great! thanks

Seige36 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Dec 2005 Posts: 101