OK, you have been of great help -- just one more question -- or rather two, I cannot find a control for the pcm out, although other things are set up which say value 'PCM OUT' I cannot find a control labelled 'PCM OUT' to either capture or do anything about. Also what are h/w in 0 through 7 and what are the multi capture switches and volumes 1 through 9. I think I am slowly getting to understand this, but it is a bit confusing.
Thank you for all your help. on Monday 07/08/2002 Roland Kuhn([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, John covici wrote: > > > I found some controls "iec958 Playback Default" which can be changed > > but its a number of probably hex digits whose meaning I don't know. > > There is an Iec958 Playback Stream which says inactive in its comment > > should I ignore that one? > > I found Iec958 Master as a boolean so I can turn that on for playback. > > I found something called "H/w Playback Route" which has many possible > > values -- the only ones to do with iec958 say iec958 In L and R -- is > > that how you play through the sp/diff out by setting the hw playback > > route to this value? And should I use l or r for stereo programs? > > And there is another control of the same name but an index 1 what is > > this? > > > The "H/W Playback Route" defines which input will be routed to the analog > output. I usually put it to "Digital Mixer" to be able to set the volumes > with the alsamixer. It you set it e.g. to PCM or SP/DIF, the respective > input signal is passed directly to the DAC, meaning you cannot change > anything about it. > > > I also have two iec958 playbback routes with one of them having > > index 1. > > > These are the settings you looked for: The one with index=1 is the right > channel, the other the left. Set them to whatever source you want to send > to the SP/DIF output: to make a direct copy you can set it to SP/DIF In, > but you can also use PCM or the Digital Mixer to route the computer > generated sounds to your SP/DIF output. The advantage of the Digital Mixer > setting is that you will be able to listen to a CD (from your CD-drive) > while also hearing other sounds (if you set the volumes/mute settings > correctly with alsamixer). > > > Many of these controls have 12 enumerations 0 to pcmout and hw > > numbers except the last ones which are the iec958 and digital mixer > > whatever that is. > > > > So you see why I need some help on these -- its hard to tell what all > > these do. > > > I hope I was able to help a bit... > > Ciao, > Roland > > +---------------------------+-------------------------+ > | TU Muenchen | | > | Physik-Department E18 | Raum 3558 | > | James-Franck-Str. | Telefon 089/289-12592 | > | 85747 Garching | | > +---------------------------+-------------------------+ -- John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Oh, it's good to be a geek. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel