Re: [PATCH] Adds 24bit, 96khz support for multichannel playback on the Audigy 2 sound cards.

[James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.co.uk>]

Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> Hello,
> On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 07:57:25PM +0000, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> 
>>Please see readme.txt at 
>>http://www.alsa-project.org/~james/alsa-driver/p16v/
>>http://www.alsa-project.org/~james/alsa-driver/p16v/readme.txt
>>
> 
> 
> Thank you for your work.
> 
> I have plain Audigy2 6.1 (SB0240) and I tried using alsa-driver-1.0.9rc1.
> speaker-test command from your readme worked more or less. When it worked,
> channels were swapped. speaker-test tried to shout from Rear Left, but I
> got sound from Center, Rear Right - LFE, Unk Left - Rear Left,
> Unk Right - Rear Right (I had to patch speaker-test a bit, so it doesn't
> segfault). I can't verify what channel sends sound to the "Back",
> because I have no 4-pin minijack.
> 
> BTW1: this incorrect "naming" maybe a more generic problem, because if I
> try to use multichannel device (plughw:0,3), i get same mis"naming".
> 
> BTW2: I wander when will ALSA support 6.1 configurations/cards correctly?
> 
> Also at some point p16v hanged, every program trying to use plughw:0,4
> hangs at first poll(). modprobe -r snd-emu10k1 ; modprobe snd-emu10k1
> cycle doesn't help. Later I'll try rebooting to see if it's permanent
> damage or not.
> 

Please upgrade your speaker-test version to the latest in alsa-utils.
Failing that, there is a newer version at 
http://www.alsa-project.org/~james/speaker-test/

The p16v does not support hardware mixing, so only one application can 
open it at a time.

James



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