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madurani
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 17, 2024 11:36 am    Post subject: Configuration trouble with Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio Reply with quote

Hello All,

I need help with configuration of mentioned audio card. After installing card to PC, kernel correctly detect card. Card appear in list of audio cards in PC:

Code:
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC897 Analog [ALC897 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: Creative [HDA Creative], device 0: CA0110-IBG Analog [CA0110-IBG Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: Creative [HDA Creative], device 1: CA0110-IBG Digital [CA0110-IBG Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0


Surround 71 and surround51 are supported:

Code:
surround51:CARD=Creative,DEV=0
    HDA Creative, CA0110-IBG Analog
    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=Creative,DEV=0
    HDA Creative, CA0110-IBG Analog
    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers


At the moment I can in KDE setup/select surroun51 and test all 6 speakers, which work properly, but when i start chrome browser and open some song via youtube, so it play only as soround2.1(on 3 speakers). Probably is needed something set up on playback in alsa or pipewire.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 24, 2024 12:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Have you tried with pure alsa ?
Emerge alsa-utils

Quote:
Find your desired card with:

cat /proc/asound/cards
and then create /etc/asound.conf with following:

defaults.pcm.card 1
defaults.ctl.card 1


emerge -a ffmpeg
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 01, 2024 1:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

madurani wrote:
At the moment I can in KDE setup/select surroun51 and test all 6 speakers, which work properly, but when i start chrome browser and open some song via youtube, so it play only as soround2.1(on 3 speakers). Probably is needed something set up on playback in alsa or pipewire.

Hi,
i think this is normal and ok. Far as i know standard YouTube don't provide surround multichannel audio (not sure, if they support this in youtube premium).

You can test your setup with the test files from https://www2.iis.fraunhofer.de/AAC/multichannel.html
this should work.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 24, 2024 10:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pipewire is responsible for the upmixing of stereo to multichannel:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/wikis/Guide-Upmixing
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