[Alsa-user] How to use Surroundsound with alsa??

2006-03-30 Thread Marcel Witte
Hi I want to use 5.1-Sound on 2 systems. The first one has an onboard-nforce4-chip (intel8x0) and the other a Creative Soundblaster live! 24bit 7.1 PCI-Card (ca0106). I have searched with google and found a lot of /etc/asoundrc...but noone of them worked correctly. What have I to write in this

Re: [Alsa-user] How to use Surroundsound with alsa??

2006-03-30 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 21:52 +0200, Marcel Witte wrote: > I have searched with google and found a lot of /etc/asoundrc...but noone of > them worked correctly. Most of the .asoundrc examples people post on the net are garbage. Check the list archives for some better examples. > My dream is that i

Re: [Alsa-user] How to use Surroundsound with alsa??

2006-03-31 Thread Marcel Witte
Most of the .asoundrc examples people post on the net are garbage. Check the list archives for some better examples. I've searched in the ml-archive but found no useable example. Can anyone send me a good example for 5.1-Sound (not SPDIF) and dmix ?? There's still no easy way to do this. T

Re: [Alsa-user] How to use Surroundsound with alsa??

2006-03-31 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 19:10 +0200, Marcel Witte wrote: > > Most of the .asoundrc examples people post on the net are garbage. > > Check the list archives for some better examples. > > > I've searched in the ml-archive but found no useable example. Can anyone > send me a good example for 5.1-Sou

Re: [Alsa-user] How to use Surroundsound with alsa??

2006-03-31 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:47:41 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 21:52 +0200, Marcel Witte wrote: > > I have searched with google and found a lot of /etc/asoundrc...but noone of > > them worked correctly. > > Most of the .asoundrc examples people post on the net are garbage. > Che

Re: [Alsa-user] How to use Surroundsound with alsa??

2006-03-31 Thread Marcel Witte
Takashi Iwai schrieb: At Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:47:41 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 21:52 +0200, Marcel Witte wrote: I have searched with google and found a lot of /etc/asoundrc...but noone of them worked correctly. Most of the .asoundrc examples people post on th

Re: [Alsa-user] How to use Surroundsound with alsa??

2006-04-01 Thread Marcel Witte
Hi I have forgotten to uninstall the alsa-rpm-packages from version 1.0.10... Now I've uninstalled them (yast wasn't happy about this...) and installed alsa-driver, alsa-lib, alsa-plugins, alsa-utils and alsa-firmware from the 1.0.11rc4-sources Here are my results: alsaconf: - found an intel

Re: [Alsa-user] How to use Surroundsound with alsa??

2006-04-01 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 16:55 +0200, Marcel Witte wrote: > - with -dplug:dmix51 : > AlsaPlayer 0.99.76 > (C) 1999-2003 Andy Lo A Foe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others. > ALSA lib pcm.c:6648:(snd_pcm_slave_conf) Unknown field > variable_buffer_size Something is not installed correctly.

Re: [Alsa-user] How to use Surroundsound with alsa??

2006-04-01 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 20:57 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > Humans (end users) are supposed to answer this question by looking at > the output of some Linux utilities. > The distro's init scripts/modutils/hotplug/udev configuration is supposed to make sure that this is not possible. Users who d

Re: [Alsa-user] How to use Surroundsound with alsa??

2006-04-01 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 16:55 +0200, Marcel Witte wrote: > - with -Dplug:dmix51 : > speaker-test 1.0.11rc4 > > Playback device is plug:dmix51 > Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 6 channels > Using 16 octaves of pink noise > ALSA lib pcm.c:6648:(snd_pcm_slave_conf) Unkno

Re: [Alsa-user] How to use Surroundsound with alsa??

2006-04-01 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Sat, 01 Apr 2006 11:41:20 -0500 Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 16:55 +0200, Marcel Witte wrote: > > - with -dplug:dmix51 : > > AlsaPlayer 0.99.76 > > (C) 1999-2003 Andy Lo A Foe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others. > > ALSA lib pcm.c:6648:(snd_pcm_slave

Re: [Alsa-user] How to use Surroundsound with alsa??

2006-04-01 Thread Bill Unruh
On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Marcel Witte wrote: Are you sure the OSS driver is not loaded for your card? How can I check this?? I'm using SuSE 10.0... lsmod|grep oss iAnd look for something that does not start with snd- Also look in /etc/modprobe.conf and see if there are sound things loading which

Re: [Alsa-user] How to use Surroundsound with alsa??

2006-04-01 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 12:23 -0800, Bill Unruh wrote: > On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Marcel Witte wrote: > > >> Are you sure the OSS driver is not loaded for your card? > >> > > How can I check this?? I'm using SuSE 10.0... > > lsmod|grep oss > iAnd look for something that does not start with snd- > Thi

Re: [Alsa-user] How to use Surroundsound with alsa??

2006-04-01 Thread Marcel Witte
Lee Revell schrieb: On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 16:55 +0200, Marcel Witte wrote: - with -dplug:dmix51 : AlsaPlayer 0.99.76 (C) 1999-2003 Andy Lo A Foe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others. ALSA lib pcm.c:6648:(snd_pcm_slave_conf) Unknown field variable_buffer_size Something is not

Re: [Alsa-user] How to use Surroundsound with alsa??

2006-04-01 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Sat, 01 Apr 2006 13:15:36 -0500 Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 20:57 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > > Humans (end users) are supposed to answer this question by looking at > > the output of some Linux utilities. > > > > The distro's init scripts/modutils/hotpl

Re: [Alsa-user] How to use Surroundsound with alsa??

2006-04-01 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 00:07 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > It is not obvious to new users that both ALSA and OSS exist; Linux > distros sometimes use OSS driver instead of ALSA one, so end user > might miss this. But any sane distro will hide this from the user. It's not worth the trouble to c

Re: [Alsa-user] How to use Surroundsound with alsa??

2006-04-01 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 21:34 +0200, Marcel Witte wrote: > Lee Revell schrieb: > > On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 16:55 +0200, Marcel Witte wrote: > > > >> - with -dplug:dmix51 : > >> AlsaPlayer 0.99.76 > >> (C) 1999-2003 Andy Lo A Foe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others. > >> ALSA lib pcm.c:664

Re: [Alsa-user] How to use Surroundsound with alsa??

2006-04-01 Thread Bill Unruh
On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Lee Revell wrote: On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 12:23 -0800, Bill Unruh wrote: On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Marcel Witte wrote: Are you sure the OSS driver is not loaded for your card? How can I check this?? I'm using SuSE 10.0... lsmod|grep oss iAnd look for something that does not st

Re: [Alsa-user] How to use Surroundsound with alsa??

2006-04-01 Thread Marcel Witte
Lee Revell schrieb: On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 12:23 -0800, Bill Unruh wrote: On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Marcel Witte wrote: Are you sure the OSS driver is not loaded for your card? How can I check this?? I'm using SuSE 10.0... lsmod|grep oss iAnd look for something that does no

Re: [Alsa-user] How to use Surroundsound with alsa??

2006-04-03 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Sat, 01 Apr 2006 14:56:04 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 21:34 +0200, Marcel Witte wrote: > > Lee Revell schrieb: > > > On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 16:55 +0200, Marcel Witte wrote: > > > > > >> - with -dplug:dmix51 : > > >> AlsaPlayer 0.99.76 > > >> (C) 1999-2003 And

Re: [Alsa-user] How to use Surroundsound with alsa??

2006-04-11 Thread Marcel Witte
Takashi Iwai schrieb: At Sat, 01 Apr 2006 14:56:04 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 21:34 +0200, Marcel Witte wrote: Lee Revell schrieb: On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 16:55 +0200, Marcel Witte wrote: - with -dplug:dmix51 : AlsaPlayer 0.99.76 (C) 199

Re: [Alsa-user] How to use Surroundsound with alsa??

2006-04-11 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 23:45 +0200, Marcel Witte wrote: > pcm.!defalut "pdmix" > typo --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcas

Re: [Alsa-user] How to use Surroundsound with alsa??

2006-04-16 Thread Marcel Witte
Lee Revell schrieb: On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 23:45 +0200, Marcel Witte wrote: pcm.!defalut "pdmix" typo Thanks, you're right. That's about the stuttering and the playing "real" 5.1-Sound I wrote in my last mail?? --- This SF.

Re: [Alsa-user] How to use Surroundsound with alsa??

2006-04-18 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Tue, 11 Apr 2006 23:45:17 +0200, Marcel Witte wrote: > > Takashi Iwai schrieb: > > At Sat, 01 Apr 2006 14:56:04 -0500, > > Lee Revell wrote: > > > >> On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 21:34 +0200, Marcel Witte wrote: > >> > >>> Lee Revell schrieb: > >>> > On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 16:55 +02