Hi all,
I have a following problem with my system. I can play stereo music well
enough from my front speakers, but when I try to play 5.1 surround
sound, I only get sound from all the other speakers!
I'm running Debian testing/unstable using 2.6.12 kernel (x86) with
Soundblaster Live! 5.1 installed and have installed ALSA from Debian
reposity. alsa-lib version seems to be 1.0.10. More system details can
be found from the end of the email.
After configuring ALSA with alsaconf I'm able to play stereo music
(using, say, XMMS) from my front speakers. I can control the volume from
alsamixers Wave slider and I also get music from all the other speakers,
if I want to, with Wave Center, Wave LFE and Wave surround sliders.
When I try to play surround sound, however, the front speakers stay
silent. This happens both with DVD playback and with speaker-test. When
running speaker-test, I see
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ speaker-test -Dsurround51 -c6
speaker-test 0.0.8
Playback device is surround51
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 6 channels
Using 16 octaves of pink noise
Rate set to 48000Hz (requested 48000Hz)
Buffer size range from 64 to 16384
Period size range from 16 to 16384
Periods = 4
Buffer time size 2525
To choose buffer_size = 16384
To choose period_size = 4096
was set period_size = 4096
was set buffer_size = 16384
0 - Front Left
4 - Center
1 - Front Right
3 - Rear Right
2 - Rear Left
5 - LFE
but I don't hear channels 0 and 1. Others are fine. I have tried
unmuting and setting all possible sliders to maximum in the alsamixer,
but nothing has helped. Surround, center and LFE sound volumes can be
controlled from respective sliders correctly.
I have tried to Google for the solution and search from the mail list
archives, but nobody seems to have same problem. :-] I would be grateful
if someone could help somehow.
Regards,
Esko Arajärvi
Below some more information which maybe could help pinning down the problem.
gnulf:/etc# cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.9rc2 (Thu Mar 24
10:33:39 2005 UTC).
gnulf:/etc# cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [S51 ]: EMU10K1 - SB Live 5.1
SB Live 5.1 (rev.7, serial:0x80641102) at 0xc800, irq 10
gnulf:/etc# lspci -vv
0000:00:10.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1
(rev 07)
Subsystem: Creative Labs SBLive! 5.1 Model SB0100
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium
>TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 64 (500ns min, 5000ns max)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
Region 0: I/O ports at c800 [size=32]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
gnulf:/etc# lsmod | grep snd
snd_emu10k1_synth 7424 0
snd_emux_synth 37344 1 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_seq_virmidi 7616 1 snd_emux_synth
snd_seq_midi_emul 7328 1 snd_emux_synth
snd_seq_dummy 3588 0
snd_seq_oss 35008 0
snd_seq_midi 9184 0
snd_seq_midi_event 7552 3 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 52432 9
snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_emu10k1 119620 1 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_rawmidi 24896 3 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi,snd_emu10k1
snd_seq_device 8684 8
snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
snd_ac97_codec 83960 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_pcm_oss 54848 0
snd_mixer_oss 19968 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 93416 3 snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 24644 3 snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 9860 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_util_mem 4512 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep 9120 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
snd 56260 13
snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
soundcore 9696 1 snd
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