dmotd wrote:
soeren.. excuse my personal inquiry, but am wondering if you have achieved this using digital outputs or analog (or a combination of both?).. i have no digital equipment myself and have been struggling to work out how to use the rear analog channels independent of the front - making at least four independent analog channels (FL FR RL RR). thanks for the advice.. dmotd.
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