Hi to all,I have two questions about a Creative Soundblaster Live! 5.1 (SB0220) card, which I have from yesterday.First thing is I noticed I can control the mixers of the card as follows:- in stereo mode (when playing a stereo sound the card somehow routes the signal to all the 6 channels, which feature I like very much) the controls are:Front Speakers - 'PCM' or 'Master' Rear Speakers - 'Wave Surround' Center - 'Wave Center' Subwoofer - 'Wave LFE' - in 6 channel mode (when playing DVDs for example) the controls are: Front Speakers - 'PCM' or 'Master' or 'Front' Rear Speakers - 'Surround' Center - 'Center' Subwoofer - 'LFE' But there appears there is no an overall master volume.I read everything I found in the mailing list archives and it seems this question is asked many times, but I found no answer given. How can I control the overall volume of the card no meter if I play a stereo or 6-channel sound? Is there a way to do this from the drivers? And if not is there a possibility to do this in some other way? I was thinking of making a softvolume in asound.conf called for example 'GrandVolume' where to attach as slaves all the controls mentioned above - for stereo and for 6-channel sound. I was trying for some time to make such a thing, but my understandings of the syntax of the file seems not to be so good althought I read several times the explanations... Can somebody help me in implementing this if it is possible?The second ting about the card - it does not have an analog CD-IN input. It only has a CD_SPDIF input. I've connected this to my DVD-Rom digital output, but can not make an audio cd play at all. I've tried putting every one of these options mentioned in the INSTALL:* Creative Card wo/Digital out......................[0x0003/0x1f03] * Creative Card w/Digital out.......................[0x0003/0x1f0f] * Creative Card w/Digital CD in.....................[0x000f/0x1f0f] * Creative Card wo/Digital out + LiveDrive..........[0x3fc3/0x1fc3] * Creative Card w/Digital out + LiveDrive...........[0x3fc3/0x1fcf] * Creative Card w/Digital CD in + LiveDrive.........[0x3fcf/0x1fcf] * Creative Card wo/Digital out + Digital I/O 2......[0x0fc3/0x1f0f] * Creative Card w/Digital out + Digital I/O 2.......[0x0fc3/0x1f0f] * Creative Card w/Digital CD in + Digital I/O 2.....[0x0fcf/0x1f0f] * Creative Card 5.1/w Digital out + LiveDrive.......[0x3fc3/0x1fff] * Creative Card 5.1 (c) 2003........................[0x3fc3/0x7cff] * Creative Card all ins and outs....................[0x3fff/0x7fff]in my /etc/modules.conf and tried enabling every mixer swithc in the mixer, but still no success.Using ALSA 1.0.10 on a Slackware Current with 2.6.10 kernel. Thanks
After a little bit of digging on www.alsa-project.org I saw the following in the changelogs between 1.0.10 and 1.0.11rc3:
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+ EMU10K1/EMU10K2 driver
- emu10k1 - Add entry for SB Live 5.1 Digital OEM [SB0220]
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As exactly this is my card I decided to give 1.0.11rc3 a try. As a
result everything works as before except for that my card is no more
recognized and is now listed as unknown:
---------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cat /proc/asound/version Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.11rc3. Compiled on Mar 8 2006 for kernel 2.6.10. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [Live ]: EMU10K1 - SB Live [Unknown]SB Live [Unknown] (rev.10, serial:0x80671102) at 0xb800, irq 10
----------------With alsa 1.0.10 my card was recognised as SB Live 5.1, so may be these changes to the code are not complete or something...
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