From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: Channel modes feature request. Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 11:12:05 +0200 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: References: <3F382486.4070604@superbug.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.4 - "Hosorogi") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: In-Reply-To: <3F382486.4070604@superbug.demon.co.uk> Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: James Courtier-Dutton Cc: alsa-devel List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org At Tue, 12 Aug 2003 00:19:34 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > > I have a SB live audio card. > I can open it with device names like: - > surround40 (Front Left, Front Right, Rear Left, Rear Right) > surround51 (Front Left, Front Right, Rear Left, Rear Right, Center, LFE) > > There is a requirement for: - > surround41 (Front Left, Front Right, Rear Left, Rear Right, LFE) > surround50 (Front Left, Front Right, Rear Left, Rear Right, Center) > > How can I get alsa to support these ? i still don't understand your question quite correctly. do you mean open a multi-channel (5ch) pcm stream wihh the configuration above? if so, it's not too difficult for sb live (but not always easy for other cards). it would look like: pcm.my5ch { type multi slaves.a.pcm "front" slaves.a.channels 2 slaves.b.pcm "rear" slaves.b.channels 2 slaves.c.pcm "lfe" slaves.c.channels 1 bindings.0.slave a bindings.0.channel 0 bindings.1.slave a bindings.1.channel 1 bindings.2.slave b bindings.2.channel 0 bindings.3.slave b bindings.3.channel 1 bindings.4.slave c bindings.4.channel 0 } Takashi ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01