Hi, On 24 May 2002, Jord Swart wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 17:01, Sebastiaan wrote: > > High, > > > > Sorry for the somewhat late reply, but I don't read my mail very well > > anmore :-). > Hi, thanks for the reply anyway, you're the only one. Think the rest of > the world (including me) does a worse job at email than you. > > > > > On 18 May 2002, Jord Swart wrote: > > > > > All, > > > > > > Everything seem to be working perfectly (almost). Somehow as soon as > > > some sound is made, it produces a lot of noise. I have no idea where it > > > comes from or how I can turn it off. I've been playing with the mixer > > > settings but it will not help. > > > > > > Anyone experiences here, or some suggestions? > > > > > Yes. I have the same audiosystem as you (with the same boxes) and it all > > worked pretty well with alsa 0.5. I had tried 0.9 once, but it just did no > > t work right, so I went back to 0.5. About a month ago I tried 0.9 again, > > but I only could get sound out of one speaker and encountered other > > problems, so I went back to the OSS driver, which works fine now. Perhaps > > one day I will give alsa a try again when I use kernel 2.5 (alsa is > > integrated there). > > > Got it up and running now with 0.9 (!). Took some time and some luck. > With alsamixer defaulting to digital output and therfore only enabling > two speakers. It would have been easier for me if nothing would have > worked at all. Just did a lot of clicking and now I have 5.1 sound > surrounding me :-))) > Hey, that is cool! > > > Second question: does anyone know how to turn on my nice cambridge > > > soundworks 5.1 system. At the moment sound only comes from the front two > > > speakers. It would be nice if it used the other three too. > > > > > With alsa, use alsamix. You can also try to set the sound registers > > manually, but I did not succeed this time. I got back to the OSS driver > > and use kmix and got sound out of all four speakers. My center speaker is > > still silent. > Kmix for me, kinda did not do the job well. It only sees half of the > relevant ports and has no control for front/rear audio. I installed > gamix (which is for gnome) from scratch. That kinda does everything you > can do. It also makes it very possible to install some mixer settings > that will not produce any sound at all (especially if you start messing > / mixing around with the pcm settings. You probably send your sound to > /dev/null or so). > Well, AFAIK I have tried almost every option because I edited the registers directly. Well, I am definately going to give it another try when ALSA is said to be stable. Until now, the OSS driver produces sound out of the 4 boxes surrounding me. It may front/right be the same sound and no center, but I have no applications/movies that really use the 5.1 future. Greetz, Sebastiaan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
