[Alsa-user] nForce2 rear device

2005-12-27 Thread Bruno Roggeri
Hello, and merry christmas everyone! I'm trying to use my 2 surround speakers as a simple stereo output and I get this error : $ aplay -Drear plop.wav ALSA lib pcm.c:1969:(snd_pcm_open_conf) Invalid type for PCM rear definition (id: rear, value: cards.pcm.rear) aplay: main:544: audio open

Re: [Alsa-user] nForce2 rear device

2005-12-27 Thread Adam Nielsen
which works, but blocks the whole device. Should I hope for better ? Probably not, since the card doesn't do hardware mixing I suspect you can either play a single stereo source or a single 6-channel source. You could look into dmix, which should allow you to open the front and rear PCMs at the