sound question

[Chuck Robey]

Ulrik Guenther wrote:
> Hi Chuck,
> 
> as I know so far, the driver does not really know *anything* about 
> digital output. If you are using your SoundBlaster not commercially, 
> could could give the OpenSoundSystem (www.opensound.com) a try which is 
> free for non-commercial use. With this, your Audigy should work like a 
> charm.

Well, I would really, really rather that our driver handled it. 
Understand, having the digital work needs two things> our driver, the 
section that talks to the mixer, must be able to turn on the correct 
channels.  There are a LOT of channels, more than you might suspect. 
This feeds into the other part: the mixer application (the thing that's 
probably gui'ed, that you turn on levels with) must turn o nthe right 
set of values.  At least so far, all of the mixer applications haven't 
had enough channels to brighten my day.

Well, maybe I can use the info from ALSA, the Linux sound (which does 
work on digital output, does turn on the right set) to id things.  If I 
can keep on with this, I would surely love to get this working.

> 
> Have fun,
> 
> Ulrik
> 
> Chuck Robey wrote:
> 
>> Just one simple question:
>>
>> I have a SoundBlaster Audigy, it's got analog and digital outputs.  I 
>> know that both work, I had them both working in the same layout with 
>> Linux.  I just want to know if the fact that I can't get any sound out 
>> of the digital outputs is
>>
>> a) because the driver doesn't know about the digital output, or
>> b) because I have it misconfigured
>> c) because I'm doing something horribly stupid.
>>
>> I'm willing to do more investigation, but I want to start off in the 
>> correct direction, so a word to start me off the way would help out.
>>
>> BTW, I have a amd64 on this machine, but I could also try the i386 
>> machine.
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