[Alsa-user] Newbie: How to use ALSA with a SB LiveDrive
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From: Steve F. <sf...@es...> - 2002-10-30 01:00:41
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Hi all, I'm the IT person at a small college radio station, and we're looking to get streaming going. I have a preference for all this unix, so I chose to build a linux box out of donated equipment. The sound card we're using is a SB Live with a LiveDrive. I'm not very familiar with it, truth be told, and I've had a lot of difficulty getting it working. I decided to use the ALSA drivers because of the good reviews I've seen elsewhere, and my experience with CB's emu10k1 driver off of SoundForge was rather miserable. Onto the point: We're inputting our broadcast via the SPDIF RCA input on the LiveDrive. The streaming software I'm using (DarkIce) is reading from the device (/dev/dsp) [I'm not certain that's the right device in this particular case, but that's what the DarkIce docs say to use]. The drivers load fine, DarkIce loads fine, but we don't get any sound. I've used amixer to set the device to record (I think), using this command line: amixer -c 0 sset "Line LiveDrive",0 90%,90% rec But we still don't get any sound. I've also tried switching to "LineDrive",1 instead, no luck. Here's the output from that command: Simple mixer control 'Line LiveDrive',0 Capabilities: pvolume cvolume cswitch Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 100 Capture 0 - 100 Front Left: Playback 90 [90%] Capture 90 [90%] [on] Front Right: Playback 90 [90%] Capture 90 [90%] [on] I'm getting pretty frustrated, so if anyone can help, I'd really appreciate it. -- Steve |