thanks for the info, but i was hoping to get this thing working with
alsa.. i can use aplay to route sounds to front and rear as defined
in the default EMU10K1.conf..
ie ..
'aplay -D rear 2ch-soundfile.wav' works as expected, 'aplay -D surround40 4ch-soundfile.wav' does too, but.. 'pd -alsa -outchannels 4' still routes all [dac~ 1 2 3 4] to the front speakers, and ignores the slave channels..
i'm guessing there is a method of making this work, (is it possible to use the slave channels with the OSS emulation? ie. /dev/dsp1 for rear) i haven't found anything useful on the alsa wiki.. frank? others?
cheers dmotd
S?ren Bovbjerg wrote:
Well, There was no real magic to it. I was using analog outputs only on a Mandrake 8.2 OS some time ago. I used the vanilla kernel drivers (NOT ALSA!) and a standard mixer (like kmixer). The only problem I had was that the front output had to be attenuated ~12dB because it is boosted by the (analog) ac97 mixer.
If recall correctly there were some devices in dev called /dsp0 /dsp1 and /dspW which represented the 3 stereo outputs (on a Live 5.1, a non 5.1 model only has the two first stereo devices).
I do, however, also recall problems with rear outputs mirroring into the front outputs, but that was way back with older driver versions and was caused by an internal setting in the emu DSP, which was programmable and set to mirror as default.
HTH Soeren