hugerobot Posted November 16, 2002 Report Share Posted November 16, 2002 I have a Soundblaster Live! soundcard and can not get the 2nd speaker out to work I have been to opensource.creative.com, www.alsa-project.org, and google.com and I don't see any instructions on how to get sound out of the 2nd speaker out. I dont see a slide for it on KMix or aumix. Anyone here have an SBLive! and got sound out of the second speaker out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LinuxExplorer Posted November 16, 2002 Report Share Posted November 16, 2002 I'm not going to garauntee this will work, but it was the only way I was able to do this without a lot of tweaking or command line parameters was installing the ALSA mixer GUI (you can install if via Mandrake Control Center -> Software Manager -> Install Software -> do a search for ALSA, I believe its alsamixergui-0.9.0-0.5rc1_2mdk.i586.rpm and any other ALSA associated lib files, plus ALSA for XMMS if that's what you're using for music. After everything's said and done, it will put the ALSA mixer in the Multimedia -> Sound group. If its not there, just log back in. When you start ALSA Mixer, it should look something like this: Now... to get the other set of speakers to work, try increasing the volume on the wave surround. Of course, with this you can tweak a lot of the sound I/O. This is presuming the emu10k that was used on your SBLive! is going to work correctly. Some other references if my trick doesn't work: http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php...blive+4+speaker http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewtopic.ph...ighlight=sblive http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewtopic.ph...ighlight=sblive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hugerobot Posted November 16, 2002 Author Report Share Posted November 16, 2002 This worked! Thanks a lot! My plan now is to run the 2nd speaker out to my family room, and play the music from my computer on my stereo and control it with my laptop on my wireless network using XMMS in VNC. I get chills just thinking about it :) Thanks again! Rob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOlson Posted November 16, 2002 Report Share Posted November 16, 2002 ALSA sounds like tin cans. *shudder* I'd use OSS if I were you. I have a tutorial on my site about it. Oh yeah, it also shows you what to do to get the bass and treble controls. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hugerobot Posted November 16, 2002 Author Report Share Posted November 16, 2002 I dont know what you're talking about. Since my last post I have run the wire thru my floor to my rec room and into my stereo... I am getting thick, rich sound, and the only *shuddering* to speak of is coming from the bass shaking the walls... Rob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HaloScan Posted November 17, 2002 Report Share Posted November 17, 2002 Same here. After compiling the SBlive drivers in mdk 9, surround sound and everything sounds and works great. I have yet to find any fault with ALSA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LinuxExplorer Posted November 17, 2002 Report Share Posted November 17, 2002 ALSA sounds fine from what I've found thus far. Actually it sounds just like it did when I had XP installed. *shrugs* Guess I'll have to try OSS next.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero0w Posted November 17, 2002 Report Share Posted November 17, 2002 Very nice tip, thanks LinuxExplorer. btw, did you get MIDI and soundfont for SB Live! working with ALSA? I plan on writing a how-to for this; just want to know if you guys have info about this, or if there is a how-to already existed... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LinuxExplorer Posted November 18, 2002 Report Share Posted November 18, 2002 Sorry, but I can't say I've tinkered any with trying to get MIDI nor the soundfont for the SB Live! card working. I'm trying to restrict myself to sharing info on things that I've actually worked with and gotten to work, which so far is pretty limited. If you're planning on making a how-to though, I know screenshots help quite a bit (especially since I'm a visual learner). If you're using Gkrellm, GkrellShoot works really well to take shots of opened windows which cuts down on time with cropping and editing. You can get the RPM here: http://www.rpmhelp.net/rpmlist.php?distrib...b=mdk81&rid=244 for that plugin along with several others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero0w Posted November 18, 2002 Report Share Posted November 18, 2002 I see. Don't worry, I think I pretty much figured out how to make MIDI work. In fact I just want to gather more input to make sure I haven't missed anything. Thanks again for the link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
budgie Posted November 18, 2002 Report Share Posted November 18, 2002 edit your /usr/share/alsa/cards/EMU10K1.conf to look like this, the rear out works fine with this set up hope this helps :) # # Configuration for the EMU10K1 chip # <confdir:pcm/front.conf> EMU10K1.pcm.front.0 { @args [ CARD ] @args.CARD { type string } type hw card $CARD device 0 } <confdir:pcm/rear.conf> EMU10K1.pcm.rear.0 { @args [ CARD ] @args.CARD { type string } type hooks slave.pcm { type hw card $CARD device 0 } hooks.0 { type ctl_elems hook_args [ { name "Wave Surround Playback Volume" preserve true lock true value [ 0 0 ] } { name "EMU10K1 PCM Send Volume" index { @func private_pcm_subdevice } lock true value [ 0 0 0 0 0 0 255 0 0 0 0 255 ] } ] } } <confdir:pcm/center_lfe.conf> EMU10K1.pcm.center_lfe.0 { @args [ CARD ] @args.CARD { type string } type hooks slave.pcm { type hw card $CARD device 0 } hooks.0 { type ctl_elems hook_args [ { name "Wave Center Playback Volume" preserve true lock true value [ 0 0 ] } { name "Wave LFE Playback Volume" preserve true lock true value [ 0 0 ] } { name "Headphone Center Playback Switch" index 1 preserve true lock true value true } { name "Headphone LFE Playback Switch" index 1 preserve true lock true value true } { name "SB Live Analog/Digital Output Jack" preserve true lock true value 0 } { name "EMU10K1 PCM Send Volume" index { @func private_pcm_subdevice } lock true value [ 0 0 0 0 255 0 0 0 0 255 0 0 ] } { name "EMU10K1 PCM Send Routing" index { @func private_pcm_subdevice } lock true value [ 0 1 2 3 6 7 0 1 6 7 0 1 ] } ] } } <confdir:pcm/surround40.conf> EMU10K1.pcm.sudrround40.0 { @args [ CARD ] @args.CARD { type string } type multi slaves [ { pcm { @func concat strings [ "cards.EMU10K1.pcm.front.0:CARD=" $CARD ] } channels 2 } { pcm { @func concat strings [ "cards.EMU10K1.pcm.rear.0:CARD=" $CARD ] } channels 2 } ] bindings [ { slave 0 channel 0 } { slave 0 channel 1 } { slave 1 channel 0 } { slave 1 channel 1 } ] } <confdir:pcm/surround51.conf> EMU10K1.pcm.surround51.0 { @args [ CARD ] @args.CARD { type string } type multi slaves [ { pcm { @func concat strings [ "cards.EMU10K1.pcm.front.0:CARD=" $CARD ] } channels 2 } { pcm { @func concat strings [ "cards.EMU10K1.pcm.rear.0:CARD=" $CARD ] } channels 2 } { pcm { @func concat strings [ "cards.EMU10K1.pcm.center_lfe.0:CARD=" $CARD ] } channels 2 } ] bindings [ { slave 0 channel 0 } { slave 0 channel 1 } { slave 1 channel 0 } { slave 1 channel 1 } { slave 2 channel 0 } { slave 2 channel 1 } ] } <confdir:pcm/iec958.conf> EMU10K1.pcm.iec958.0 { @args [ CARD DEV AES0 AES1 AES2 AES3 ] @args.CARD { type string } @args.DEV { type integer } @args.AES0 { type integer } @args.AES1 { type integer } @args.AES2 { type integer } @args.AES3 { type integer } type hooks slave.pcm { type hw card $CARD device 3 } hooks.0 { type ctl_elems hook_args [ { name "IEC958 Playback Default" lock true preserve true value [ $AES0 $AES1 $AES2 $AES3 ] } { name "IEC958 Optical Raw Playback Switch" lock true preserve true value [ 1 1 ] } { name "SB Live Analog/Digital Output Jack" lock true preserve true value 1 } ] } } :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: 8) 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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