[Alsa-user] es1371/xine surround problems

[Ryan S. <su...@sy...>]

hello!

i'm still having trouble getting surround sound to work in xine with
alsa.  i'm using a soundblaster 128 (es1371).  everything seems to work
ok until i select one of the surround channels in xine (4, 5, or 5.1
channels).  when i try this, xine keeps telling me that pcm may be in
use by another program.  i followed all of the install instructions from
the alsa page on freshrpms.net, including killing esd, but no luck.  i
have no idea how to check what other program(s) might be using pcm.

also, whenever i play a cd, i only get sound out of my front speakers,
no matter what i select in alsamixer.

anybody else having these problems?  what haven't i tried?

ryan