Re: [Alsa-user] CMIPCI - DMIX and surround

2004-05-21 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Bradee-oh! wrote: > Hate to reply to myself, but I narrowed down the problem. If I use the > "master" control in the mixer, it only works on the front channels. If > I use the PCM control, it will adjust FL, FR, RL, and RR. And that is > whether or not I have the 3d-control switch or the "4 chan

Re: [Alsa-user] CMIPCI - DMIX and surround

2004-05-19 Thread Bradee-oh!
Hate to reply to myself, but I narrowed down the problem. If I use the "master" control in the mixer, it only works on the front channels. If I use the PCM control, it will adjust FL, FR, RL, and RR. And that is whether or not I have the 3d-control switch or the "4 channel mode" switch enabl

Re: [Alsa-user] CMIPCI - DMIX and surround

2004-05-19 Thread Bradee-oh!
I got dmix working with the surround device "hw:0,1" and have the channel duping for stereo->5.1 working with the dmix device. Hurray! Now I have a couple more questions. 1 - When I play a stereo audio file in XMMS, for example, and I control the volume slider, the front and rear channels succe

Re: [Alsa-user] CMIPCI - DMIX and surround

2004-05-18 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Bradee-oh! wrote: > First question is - is that normal behavior? It seems that if > surround51 uses "hw:0,1" and 2 channel stuff uses "hw:0,0", there > shouldn't be any conflict REGARDLESS of dmix. What's the deal here? The CMI chip can be used in two modes (stereo or surround), and there are tw

[Alsa-user] CMIPCI - DMIX and surround

2004-05-16 Thread Bradee-oh!
I have a CMI8738-MC6 (model 55) built into my motherboard. Originally quite dissapointed with the lack of support for hardware mixing in the driver, I discovered dmix to be a very acceptable solution for most of my normal desktop needs. However once I started to explore the realm of 5.1 surrou