[Alsa-user] please help: Rear channel still won't work on SB Live :(

[Renaud <rg...@fr...>]

> Different from OSS driver, ALSA handles multiple channels with a
> single pcm device.  For example, you'll be able to play 4 channel
> interleaved WAV file via aplay like this way:
> 	% aplay -D surround40 foo.wav

I have tried that, it only outputs through the front speakers.
I also tried -D rear, same thing, and I even tried to run 2 alsaplayers, =
one=20
with -D front, one with -D rear or -D surround40 : the two streams are mi=
xed=20
in the front speakers !

And yes I did unmute and set the volume for wave surround.
Could this be a routing issue or something ?
Do I need to enable anything in modules.conf ?
Also, I don't have an asound.conf, is it needed and if so how to generate=
 it ?

> > Xine also only want to output 2 channels even though I enabled
> > four_channel in .xinerc, but that could be something else...
> I think so.  I've heard xine supports very well ALSA 0.9 API.

I've been able to tell xine to output on 4 channels now, so the problem i=
s=20
probably with alsa.

thanks for your time

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Renaud Guerin
rg...@fr... - gue...@ut...
G=E9nie des Syst=E8mes d'Information et de D=E9cision
Universit=E9 de Technologie de Troyes (France)
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