Lee Revell wrote:
>On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 12:24 -0600, Russell Hanaghan wrote:
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>>Rick Wright wrote:
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>>>Lee Revell wrote:
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>>>>On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 11:56 -0500, Dave Phillips wrote:
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>>>>>Greetings:
>>>>>
>>>>> This question is directed to Lee Revell and anyone who is using or
>>>>>has tried to use the multichannel capability for the ALSA SBLive
>>>>>module.
>>>>>
>>>>> When I select multichannel duplex operation in QJackCtl I get 16
>>>>>channels for input and two channels for output. Is that the default
>>>>>I/O channel arrangement ?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>You should get 16 in and 16 out. You have to individually select the
>>>>multichannel devices for input (hw:x,2) and output (hw:x,3).
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>>>What Lee said.
>>>
>>>I am using the EMU10K1 driver on both an Audigy2 EX and ZS models.
>>>These cards both have 6 analog inputs (3 stereo lines) and the EX is
>>>6.1 out (7 analog outputs) and the ZS is 7.1 out (8 analog outputs).
>>>I have worked out the mapping from the pcm_capture and pcm_playback
>>>ports to the physical analog inputs and outputs which I will share if
>>>you are interested.
>>>
>>>The only problem I found is that the alsa-mixer volume control sliders
>>>are left-right switched for all of the stereo output pairs. I mean,
>>>if you plug a standard 1/8" stereo-to-RCA cable into the stereo output
>>>on the card, the appropriate left slider controls the signal on the
>>>red RCA plug - which is typically the right channel - and vice versa.
>>>This is true for all stereo output pairs.
>>>
>>>I reported this bug to the ALSA bugtracker about a year ago
>>>(https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=904), but the
>>>behavior persists....
>>>
>>>Rick
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>Does this work on older SBlive 5.1 cards as well?
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>Yes, it works on everything supported by the emu10k1 driver, all the way
>back to the SBLive! PCI 512.
>
>Lee
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Cool! Thanks Lee.
I know I've seen stuff about this previous and you have long been a
supporter of the usefulness of SB cards. I guess it's nice to know that
I have about 5 SBlive 5.1 (about $19.00 for the OEM version) laying
around that are multi channel cards of sorts! :)
R~
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