Re: [Alsa-user] help with using rear connector as a separate channel

2008-01-21 Thread Adam Nielsen
I seek to use my onboard 4 ch sound in a two stereo setup. so I can connect a headset to the rear speakers. I am using gentoo with kernel 2.6.21-ck2-r1 and the alsa provided in the kernel 1.0.14rc3. You realise this would mean one audio device would play out of the front speakers and a

Re: [Alsa-user] [alsa-devel] Support for Compaq Presario F700 - model 755US - NVidia MCP67 Audio - Codec Conexant 5051

2008-01-21 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:23:29 -0200, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote: Em Saturday 19 January 2008 12:45:52 Claudio Matsuoka escreveu: On Jan 19, 2008 9:56 AM, Tobin Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have already requested documentation and a development board from Conexant, so I should be

Re: [Alsa-user] help with using rear connector as a separate channel

2008-01-21 Thread Niv
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 here is my response , with fixed error msg: Adam Nielsen wrote: | You realise this would mean one audio device would play out of the front | speakers and a different one out of the rear speakers? i.e. if you're | listening to music and you want to

[Alsa-user] Multi Channels only working in passthrough mode

2008-01-21 Thread Johannes Bauer
Hello list, I'm trying to get my surround system working, especially routing the 5.1 channels I have when there is only a stereo playback. This means that the rear speakers and (especially) the subwoofer should output something when I play normal music. What I've got working so far: When playing

[Alsa-user] About my soundcard...

2008-01-21 Thread Server Acim
Hello, My sound card is ESI - MAYA44 PCI. http://www.esi-audio.com/products/maya44/ You can see what I see, if I give command alsaconf in the alsaconf-1.png named picture. But, in alsa project page as well as you can see at the my_sound_card.png is written that The card should be supported by

Re: [Alsa-user] help with using rear connector as a separate channel

2008-01-21 Thread Adam Nielsen
I then tried the lines you suggested, got the same error. in any case I would still want to use the front channels to output music , while using the rear to conduct a phone call simultaneously. What happens if you do something like this: pcm.ch34 { ... bindings { 0 0 0 1 0 2

Re: [Alsa-user] help with using rear connector as a separate channel

2008-01-21 Thread Bill Unruh
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Adam Nielsen wrote: I then tried the lines you suggested, got the same error. in any case I would still want to use the front channels to output music , while using the rear to conduct a phone call simultaneously. What happens if you do something like this: pcm.ch34 {

[Alsa-user] alsa and bluetooth - status

2008-01-21 Thread Niv
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi all, I want to inquire about an update to alsa that will allow better support for bluetooth headsets. In this post @02 Nov 2007: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg03135.html Fabien from the bluez crew states: device enumeration with

Re: [Alsa-user] help with using rear connector as a separate channel

2008-01-21 Thread Adam Nielsen
could dshare be missing in my alsa? how can I tell which type are avail in the version of alsa I am using? Hang on a minute, why are you using dshare? dshare only gives exclusive access to particular channels - if you use dmix you'll be able to play multiple streams over each audio device. I

Re: [Alsa-user] help with using rear connector as a separate channel

2008-01-21 Thread Niv
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 please advice me how .asoundrc should be to test this as a slave. using this didnt work: pcm_slave.via4 { #pcm hw:0 ~pcm surround40 ~channels 4 } pcm.ch34 { ~slave via4 ~bindings { ~0 0 ~

[Alsa-user] Soundcard only works every other login

2008-01-21 Thread Ed Porteous
Hi, I have an Echo Mia soundcard, and I've managed to get it work, but only every other time I log in, which is a bit of a pain! The initialization of the card doesn't show up in /var/log/messages when it doesn't work, and when it does work, I do see the initialization. I also have a built-in