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
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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
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
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 {
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
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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
~
