> There definitely seems to be a problem with the alsa oss emulation in the > mixer category, and I have no idea what it could be. > On my card, the recording slider is frozen in aumix or kmix (but works > in alsamixer) and does nothing. It (aumix or kmix) recognizes that the controls should > be there but cannot affect them.
Hmmm.... the problem is... I don't wanna use OSS (real or emulated) AT ALL. I'd just want apps to use the ALSA drivers directly. Anyway.... I tried XMMS choosing ALSA as output device, and it worked, even with CDs (I couldn't hear anything with kCD)! I also changes the volumes of the devices using both amixer and alsamixer during lay, an everything worked as it had to, so.... ALSA is working with my sound card. There are anyway two things: 1) Can't KDE apps (with or without ARTS (better without, anyway)) directly use ALSA device? I don't think I can't set, somewhere, the ALSA support for KDE apps. I couldn't get it to work with Slackware 9.1 (olnly PCM front L-R device works), but... I tested Mandrake 9.2 before, and everything worked with ALSA and KDE, and I could also use kMix and Aumix, and all my cad devices appeared there! 2) Playing a CD (that's stereo, and should normally only be heared with front L-R channels) with XMMS with ALSA output, there's a sort upmix from stereo to 5 channels (it seems front L-R are used normally, surround L-R are a clone of front channels, and fronter center is a frontt L-R downmix). Muting with amixer center and surround channels allowed me to hear the CD using only the front L-R channels, but... is there any option for telling ALSA "always used the right set-up concording with the number of channels into the fils; for example: play stereo media only with front L-R, mono media only with front center, 5.1 with all the channels, automatically"? This should be the normal setup, and that's what window do, and what normal stand-alon players and amplifiers do, unless you specify different behaviour. 3) Under Windows I can choos, when using a 5.1 card, to output as 2.1, and the driver does the downmixing. Is there a way for doing this easily with ALSA (if I have real 5.1 sound and simply mute center and back channels I'll simply loose them, they will not be dowmixed to front L-R channels)? Thanx Marco Iannaccone [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
