Re: Alsa Sound + channels

Rick Miles <[email protected]>
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Jafaruddin Lie is a darn nice person I don't care what anybody says!

First off, I thought MLUG policy was text emails only.
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> I am running Fedora Core 3 on Asus A7v333 that has C-Media (CMI) 8738
That card was recommended to to me a safe linux choice and I have one
> soundcard onboard, which was detected fine by the installation and I
> have no problems playing DivX files, mp3, streaming radios, even flash
> animations with sounds. The problem is, I can only get 1 sound from 1
> apps at a time. 
That card can be either a four channel or six channel card. The user guide 
indicates this to mean, as in channels out to speakers, I don't see anything 
about multiple input streams. That being said the manual indicates seperate 
connectors for other input streams including a PC Speaker_IN Port (J4)
> For example, if I am playing mp3 in the background, I 
> won't get mail notification sound or Gaim's message notification sound
> or any sound at all. 
That could also mean that your system sounds are disabled or your desktop 
sounds are turned off, e.g. I have sound turned off in kde on my desktop so 
that I don't get the login music and that also means no sound for incoming 
mail form kmail
> I think this has to do with Alsa only enabling 1 
> channel. 
Did you configure alsa manually or did some automated redhat thingo do it?

If you can play mp3's alsa is working, if you have used the commandline ap 
alsaconfig and unmuted any channel options ( "m" key") and turned them up in 
volume (up arrow) and saved your settings with "alsactl store"  thats all you 
can do. Alsaconfig will present any option that is a functionality of your 
card, if alsaconfig don't offer it as configurable, i.e you can unmute/mute 
and adjust volume, its not there on your card or not recognised as being 
there.
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Cheers,

Rick Miles

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and rest set in motion is no rest.

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