[Alsa-user] emu10k1 and SB Audigy Platinum - only subwoofer works

[Jeffrey T. <jth...@ma...>]

I have a Debian linux box with a Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum
sound card and Klipsh (sp?) 5.1 surround speakers. I'm using
the 2.4.16, 2.4.18 and 2.5.11 kernels.

I've downloaded the alsa driver 0.90beta12 and followed the
directions carefully. In both the 2.4.16 and 2.4.18 (didn't
try with 2.5.11) kernels, the emu10k1 driver modules compiled
correctly and I was able to install them without a problem.
Lsmod shows everything is fine. 

Here's the problem: when I try to use the sound (playing a CD,
for example), there is nothing until I *open* a mixer (any of
gmix, amixer or alsamixer). Once I just open a mixer, I
suddenly get sound, but only out of the subwoofer. Playing around
with the different mixer settings doesn't change this.
The mixer settings are saved when I log out, and are no longer
muted (the default when you compile the modules and insert 
them).

I've tried compiling the kernels with sound in the kernel and
as a module, with and without oss, with and without the emu10k1
driver (the kernel version). I also tried compiling the 2.5.11
kernel with the emu10k1 driver (I believe this is the alsa driver)
with the same result - only the subwoofer works.

I know the speakers are wired up to the soundcard correctly. They
work when I boot up win2k (shudder!).

Is there something I'm missing here? I haven't found anything in
the archives which address this particular problem. A google search
turned up a few leads which were dead ends. Should I be using
some particular option when inserting the module? I tried the
last option listed in the INSTALL text file (for "5.1+Live"), but
the result was the same.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Jeff Thunder
jth...@ma...