Re: [Alsa-user] Some questions about the Audigy 2 NX

2006-10-05 Thread Evgeni Golov
Hi Simeon,

On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 20:39:55 +0200 Simeon Penev wrote:

 maybe this tutorial by Daniel Heyder will help you:
 
 http://praxeum.gmxhome.de/audigy2nx.html
 
 Although it's written in german, you can still try copy/pasting the
 configs and see if that is what you need.

Uhm, I'm living in Germany for more than ten years now - I think I can
understand German ;-)

Thank you for the link, I've read it carefully...
The first point seems to be not needed on Debian, because the card
works without any changes to modprobe.d. The second point is the
asound.conf, which I already have like this through digging around the
alsa-wiki. And the last one is the lirc part, which I didn't have time
yet for.
The guide is written very well, but does not help me much :(

So I still need an answer for my first question :(

Regards,
Evgeni

PS: is your name correctly written like this: Семён ?

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Re: [Alsa-user] Some questions about the Audigy 2 NX

2006-10-05 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Evgeni Golov wrote:
 there is no master volume, alsamixer shows 4 Master bars, but they
 change only one output each. on my Audigy 4 (nonpro - yes, it works) I
 have Master which controlls all the outputs, and PCM {Center|Front|
 LFE} for the individual outputs. it there any chance to get this
 working with the 2 NX?

The controls in the mixer are those that are implemented in the
hardware.  The Audigy 2 NX does not have a volume control that would
affect all channels.


Regards,
Clemens

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Re: [Alsa-user] Some questions about the Audigy 2 NX

2006-10-05 Thread Evgeni Golov
On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 16:44:05 +0200 Clemens Ladisch wrote:

 The controls in the mixer are those that are implemented in the
 hardware.  The Audigy 2 NX does not have a volume control that would
 affect all channels.

Damn, what the h*** is the 'Master' control on the box is for then?
Is there a possibility to create a virtual control in Alsa, which would
control all the hardware ones the same?

Regards,
Evgeni

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Re: [Alsa-user] Some questions about the Audigy 2 NX

2006-10-05 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Evgeni Golov wrote:
 On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 16:44:05 +0200 Clemens Ladisch wrote:
  The controls in the mixer are those that are implemented in the
  hardware.  The Audigy 2 NX does not have a volume control that would
  affect all channels.
 
 Damn, what the h*** is the 'Master' control on the box is for then?

That control sends Volume + and Volume - events to the computer.

If you have LIRC, you can try to do something useful with these events.
It should be possible to create two scripts that change the volume of
all eight channels with amixer.

 Is there a possibility to create a virtual control in Alsa, which would
 control all the hardware ones the same?

Not at the moment.  It is planned to create a virtual mixer layer that
would allow doing things like this.


Regards,
Clemens

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[Alsa-user] Some questions about the Audigy 2 NX

2006-10-03 Thread Evgeni Golov
Hi,

I have an Audigy 2 NX for playing nice sound on my Laptop (Intel HDA
realy sucks).
I've managed to get stereo and fake-5.1 (copy stereo signal to all 6
channels through the duplicate route) working.
But there are still some issues, I hope you can help with:

1) there is no master volume, alsamixer shows 4 Master bars, but they
change only one output each. on my Audigy 4 (nonpro - yes, it works) I
have Master which controlls all the outputs, and PCM {Center|Front|
LFE} for the individual outputs. it there any chance to get this
working with the 2 NX?

2) the hardware controls for volume, mic, etc does not work. the only
interesting control would be the volume, but not as interesting as the
master volume.

3) this is not an issue (because untested) but a question: I've set up
my vlc to output to the fake5.1, because I usually use vlc for wathing
tv, which is stereo. when I would like to watch a DVD with 5.1 sound,
would I have to switch to the 'real' device, or is there some
posibility to configure the fake one to duplicate the first 2 channels
only if the input has less than 6 (or 4) channels?

TIA
Evgeni Golov

PS: here is my /etc/asound.conf:
pcm.nx51 {
type plug
slave.pcm hw:2,0
slave.channels 6
route_policy duplicate
}


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Re: [Alsa-user] Some questions about the Audigy 2 NX

2006-10-03 Thread Evgeni Golov
I love to answer my questions myself ;)

On Tue, 3 Oct 2006 16:01:16 +0200 Evgeni Golov wrote:

 3) this is not an issue (because untested) but a question: I've set up
 my vlc to output to the fake5.1, because I usually use vlc for wathing
 tv, which is stereo. when I would like to watch a DVD with 5.1 sound,
 would I have to switch to the 'real' device, or is there some
 posibility to configure the fake one to duplicate the first 2 channels
 only if the input has less than 6 (or 4) channels?

speaker-test -D hw:2,0 -c 6 gives the same results as with -D nx51, so
ALSA seems to be intelligent enough to duplicate only 2-channel streams.

the bad thing, I noticed while playing around with speaker-test, is
that the card seems not to be able to play 2 streams in the same time.
While xmms is playing, speaker-test gives me 'device busy' - no matter
which device I choose, hw:2,0 or nx51.
I though, dmix is not needed anymore (or is setup'ed automagicaly)?

With 
pcm.dmixer {
type dmix
ipc_key 1024
slave.pcm nx
bindings {
0 0
1 1
}
}
in asound.conf, I can hear 2 sounds the same time, but not in fake5.1.
Damn things that are :(

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Re: [Alsa-user] Some questions about the Audigy 2 NX

2006-10-03 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 20:25 +0200, Evgeni Golov wrote:
 I though, dmix is not needed anymore (or is setup'ed automagicaly)?
 

Not for USB audio.  There are too many different devices for a single
dmix config to work with them all.  You'll have to create your own.

Lee


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Re: [Alsa-user] Some questions about the Audigy 2 NX

2006-10-03 Thread Simeon Penev
Hi Evgeni,

maybe this tutorial by Daniel Heyder will help you:

http://praxeum.gmxhome.de/audigy2nx.html

Although it's written in german, you can still try copy/pasting the
configs and see if that is what you need.

simeon

Evgeni Golov wrote:
 Hi,
 
 I have an Audigy 2 NX for playing nice sound on my Laptop (Intel HDA
 realy sucks).
 I've managed to get stereo and fake-5.1 (copy stereo signal to all 6
 channels through the duplicate route) working.
 But there are still some issues, I hope you can help with:
 
 1) there is no master volume, alsamixer shows 4 Master bars, but they
 change only one output each. on my Audigy 4 (nonpro - yes, it works) I
 have Master which controlls all the outputs, and PCM {Center|Front|
 LFE} for the individual outputs. it there any chance to get this
 working with the 2 NX?
 
 2) the hardware controls for volume, mic, etc does not work. the only
 interesting control would be the volume, but not as interesting as the
 master volume.
 
 3) this is not an issue (because untested) but a question: I've set up
 my vlc to output to the fake5.1, because I usually use vlc for wathing
 tv, which is stereo. when I would like to watch a DVD with 5.1 sound,
 would I have to switch to the 'real' device, or is there some
 posibility to configure the fake one to duplicate the first 2 channels
 only if the input has less than 6 (or 4) channels?
 
 TIA
 Evgeni Golov
 
 PS: here is my /etc/asound.conf:
 pcm.nx51 {
 type plug
 slave.pcm hw:2,0
 slave.channels 6
 route_policy duplicate
 }
 
 


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