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Sarlok
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 Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 2:34 am Post subject: Audigy2 sound channels (front/rear), and mixers? |
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Hello folks.
Sorry if this is a duplicate, but I did a good hour of searching and came up empty handed.
I've just finished getting my Audigy 2 Platinum (ZS) working, with the emergeable emu10k1 drivers.
My old sound card was my friends Live! value, and It had the problem of the front speakers port's sound output clipping and being all crackly. The rear speakers however, sounded great. I only have 2 speakers and a sub, so I plugged them into the rear port and used them that way.
I was dissapointed to find ou tthat my new Audigy2 has the opposite problem. Sound out of the front speaker channel is very, very quiet. and the rear speakers channel sounds about normal.
Is there something I can do to fix this? My speakers volume knob doesn't go up high enough to leave them plugged in the front channel (And they can go surprisingly high for pc speakers)..
Also, I'm assuming I have to choose one of the many mixers available? Or does X usually come with one or something? What's agood one to choose if I do have to emerge something? I'm using fluxbox, so I'd rather something that doesn't depend mostly on KDE or Gnome. 
Thanks muchly in advance.
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Decker
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| Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 8:52 am Post subject: |
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Hi,
what exactly did you do? Did you emerge the "emu10k1-cvs" drivers? And then? Which files did you edit?
Gentoo loads the module on startup without errors, but I can't hear anything. |
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Sarlok
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| Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 4:49 pm Post subject: |
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I emerged the emu10k1-cvs drivers.
And I added the emu10k1 module to my modules.autoload, did a module-update, and that was it.
I didn't need to edit anything, else...
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Coogee
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| Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 8:12 pm Post subject: |
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I also have an Audigy 2 ZS and I also had some problems with the emu10k1-cvs driver. In my case I couldn't get the Line-in channel working. IMHO the problem is that the ZS has 1 channel more than the normal Audigy 2.
Editing the /etc/emu10k1.conf didn't help, so I analysed all the scripts and wrote my own one (one can directly program the soundcard's DSP):
| Code: | #!/bin/bash -e
AUMIX=`which aumix`
load(){
emu-dspmgr -x -z
emu-dspmgr -a"Pcm:Front" -a"Analog:Front"
emu-dspmgr -l"Pcm" -f"/usr/share/emu10k1/vol_2.bin" -c"Vol_L" -m"pcm_l" -c"Vol_R" -m"pcm_r"
emu-dspmgr -p"vol Line" -l"Analog" -f"/usr/share/emu10k1/vol_2.bin" -c"Vol_L" -m"line_l" -c"Vol_R" -m"line_r"
emu-dspmgr -p"vol Vol" -l"Front" -f"/usr/share/emu10k1/vol_2.bin" -c"Vol_L" -m"vol_l" -c"Vol_R" -m"vol_r"
emu-dspmgr -y
}
case "$1" in
restore | restart)
load
# Load mixer settings
$AUMIX -f /etc/aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
;;
save | stop)
# Save mixer settings
$AUMIX -f /etc/aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
;;
*)
load
esac
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I called this script "audigy-script", made it executable and put it into /etc.This script enables analog output (2 speakers) and analog input (Line1).
Then I changed /etc/modules.d/emu10k1 to point to this new script instead to the old one:
| Code: | post-install emu10k1 /etc/audigy-script restore
pre-remove emu10k1 /etc/audigy-script save
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To emerge aumix is also a good idea (with "rc-update add aumix default"). |
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Sarlok
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| Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 11:24 pm Post subject: |
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Awsome. That looks like exactly what I need. I'll give it a try when I get back from work today. 
Thanks.
edit:
Gave it a try, works great!
Thanks again.
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Decker
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| Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2003 2:43 pm Post subject: |
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That's fantastic guys. Thanks to you both Sarlok and Coogee I have sound. The script works perfectly  |
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