Re: Audigy2 mixer not working

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Tue, 11 Mar 2003 09:26:14 +0000,
Andrew de Quincey wrote:
> 
> Hi, am I being stupid, or do the mixer controls not work under the Audigy2.
 
the latter case :)

> If I run alsamixer, I can adjust sliders.... but it has no effect on the 
> output. I can run other programs (e.g. xmms) simultaneously, and see the 
> silder changing in alsamixer, but again, it has no effect on the output.
 
it seems that audigy2 is somewhat different from audigy1 and bypasses
the AC97.  the master, PCM, etc. volumes are for ac97 and that's why
these volumes don't affect.
you can adjust the volume via "Wave" volume, btw.

> I _can_ hear sound, its just that I cannot change volume settings in software.
> 
> Interestingly, I can send output to the correct speakers using "aplay -D 
> rear", "aplay -D front" etc...
> 
> Can anyone give me any pointers as to how to fix this.. I'm not up (yet) on 
> ALSA's architecture. I _did_ see some files that looked something like mixer 
> definitions in /usr/share/alsa... 

for the oss-emulation apps, remap the Wave as the master volume via
proc interface.  see my OSS-emulation howto for details.


ciao,

Takashi


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