Anarky, I had a hard time with rear sound on my SB Live 5.1 card. It isn't fun. But fortunately I found a fix. Here's what I did to fix it:
Start alsaguimixer Mute the "SB Live Analog/Digital Output Jack" item Control the volume of the rear speakers by the "Wave Surround" Item. I played with it a little - lowered the front and raised the rears. Finally it worked great! Is this new info or of any help? -----Original Message----- From: Anarky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 3:27 PM To: mandrake newbie Subject: [newbie] 4 speakers & linux ... I'm really frustrated :-( high tendency to be angry at linux & stuff ... no, don't kill me .. I'm chilling ... but I was really hoping hard that with Mandrake 9.2 4 speakers Sb Live would work right ... unfortunatelly it's a big no ... by big I mean also that the sound is weird ... probably quite lower quality than windows ... the drivers were quite weird .. a lot of controls ... kmixer couldn't crack it at all ... alsamixer knew more ... but none of them gave voice to the rear speakers (btw, I'm talking about the 9.2 rc1 version in which I had put high hopes in ..) ... however a lot of them in some way changed the sound of the sound .. giving birth to a lot of ambiguity and a lot of way to make the sound even lower quality ... ... is Linux never going to go for simple sound? Just a 'front-back, left-right' set of sliders and a volume ... that's all I wanted :( ... I didn't expect all the fancy effects I could do in windows ... :-( ... you can tell I'm frustrated ... I guess ... this was for a friend's coputer .. she has a Sb Live 5.1 .... on mine (Sb Live Value/1024) the back speakers were just as obscure .. but eventually with alsa drivers & somewhere hidden in the alsamixer I managed to turn them up/on ... even though it's strange as any volume I turn up in say xmms or mplayer actually turns up only on the front speakers ... I'm pretty sure some of you guys might have 4 speakers ... or something ... ?? rs ... or something ... ?? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
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