Re: [Alsa-user] Re: [Alsa-devel] Audigy and FPS 5300 rear speakers problem

[Takashi I. <ti...@su...>]

Hi,

sorry for the delay.

At 12 Jun 2002 23:49:26 +0200,
j_...@la... wrote:
> 
> Hi, 
> See as attached files my freshly generated /etc/asound.state. I also
> attached /etc/init.d/alsasound, I think it comes from redhat and is
> responsible for loading modules and restore state of card (cause it
> loads the famous /etc/asound.state ;).

i tested this config, and it worked well on my system.
i heard very loud output from rear speakers...


> Notice that with this asound.state file I got sound in all speakers when
> reading mp3 files with xmms, but the problem with rear speakers is still
> here: sound is really weak. I also noticed that if I unmute the "Audigy
> Analog/Digital Output Jack" channel I lost sound coming from the center
> speaker (nothing change for rear ones). Also, playing audio cd with this
> config I've only sound from front speakers (nothing on rears or center).
> Playing a mpeg file with xine it seems (but I'm not sure) that there is
> absolutely nothing in the rear speakers.

the output from rear speaker is routed independently from ac97.
thus, for example, "Master" and "PCM" are irrelavant to the output
level of rear/center/lfe speakers.

however, the signals are usually enough high on the level of 60%.
it must not be so weak as you wrote.  i suspect something other
reasons, such like physical connection, etc.

how FPS5300 handles the cables?  are they all analog connections?

btw, cd cannot be played on the current driver from the rear
speakers, since the only pcm output is routed to surround (with the
amount of "Wave Surround").

the digital/analog swithc is one of mysterious things.
i'm not sure what and how it works.  it's not documented.
apparently this toggles the analog and digital outputs, but anyway,
audigy's digital output is still not supported on alsa, so we cannot
test it yet.

in the case of xine, it might use the 4channel pcm device explicitly,
so the routing of "wave surround" has no effect.


> I also noticed that if I launch alsamixer again after an audio
> application (xine or xmms) new item called EMU10K1 PCM, EMU10K1 PCM Send
> and EMU10K1 PCM Send Routing appear, and if I change anyone I lost sound
> from front-right speaker in xine but not in others apps. I've attached
> asound.state before changing an item and after, files are respctively
> called asound.state.xine and asound.state.xine.left

please don't tought these values.  they are actually used for efx
routing, and usually changed via alsa configuration file
(/usr/share/alsa/cards/EMU10k1.conf).

 
ciao,

Takashi