Re: Got dem ol' Soundblaster Live! blues again...

[Arend Meetsma <arend meetsma org>]

On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Arend Meetsma wrote:

>
> On 4 Dec 2001, Chris Kloiber wrote:
>
> > I have two SBLive cards, and they are lying under my desk. I went back
> > to SB16 PCI cards. I found that with my SBLive's I had to move the
> > speaker wires to the REAR channel jack to get any sound in Linux. I
> > dunno why.
>
> Hi Steven and Chris,
>
> I've found that my live card does interesting things with the settings
> from aumix. In order to get sound out of the front&back speakers at the
> same time, I need to fiddle with the line2, line3 and digital2 settings.
> These seem to do some fading from front to rear.
>
> Here are my findings:
>
> Line2 and digital2 seem to adjust front volume, independant of rear.
>
> line3 fades from front to back, where 100 is full front, and 0 is full
> rear.
>
> Can anyone confirm whether or not this happens on their sbLive cards too?
>
> Arend

Now that I look at it, this makes a little bit of sense, in your case, you
probably have all these values at zero, so you have no front, and full
rear.

Running my card like this gives me nice surround sound: (too bad wolffm is
playing Backstreet Boys right now)

[meetsma NIS meetsma]$ cat .aumixrc
vol:94:94:P
pcm:81:81:P
speaker:40:40:P
line:0:0:P
mic:0:0:R
cd:75:75:P
rec:7:7:P
ogain:52:52:P
line1:0:0:P
line2:100:100:P
line3:51:51:P
dig1:0:0:P
dig2:100:100:P
phin:52:52:P