Hi, You should upgrade alsa-driver to 1.0.10 (check /proc/asound/version for you current version)
or you should downgrade alsa-lib to 1.0.9rc2 or you should copy file emu10k1.conf from alsa-lib 1.0.9.rc2 package to your current alsa-lib instalation. Peter Zubaj >-----Pôvodná správa----- >Od: Esko Arajärvi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Odoslané: 12. januára 2006 12:54 >Komu: alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net >Predmet: [Alsa-user] Problem playing surround sound with SB Live 5.1 > > >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 > > Aktivujte si neobmedzenu mailovu schranku na www.pobox.sk! ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. 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