Hi! I hope you still get this, although your original post is quite old. Iwrote a howto about softvol recently. In the end, I attached my.asoundrc file, which splits my 4 channels in 2 streams (front andrear). That way, I can adjust volume for every channel seperately,because these 2 controls are stereo controls. Have a look at it, maybeyou can do it similarly for 6 channels. http://alsa.opensrc.org/How_to_use_softvol_to_control_the_master_volume Hope this helps... Greets, Ingo Sebastian Schäfer schrieb:> Hi everybody!> > I bought a Terratec Aureon 5.1 PCI which uses a CMI8738-MC6 chip. I want> to play DVDs in 5.1 surround sound.> I already made it do that, but unfortunately the mixer does not give me> the possibility to adjust the volume very detailed, which is an absolute> necessity for my setup (which is a real cinema).> > So, I thought I could just add an /etc/asound.conf where I split up the> 6-channel signal, apply the softvol plugin to those 6 streams (which> would give me 6 sliders in my mixer) and then mix it all back together> and output it.> > As I have never ever done an asound.conf I thought I'd just start with a> simple one by just adding a (more or less dummy) softvol control. So I> wrote the following into my asound.conf:> > --------------------------------------> pcm.softvol {> type softvol> slave {> pcm "hw:0,1"> }> control {> name "SoftMaster"> }> }> > pcm.dsp0 {> type plug> slave.pcm "softvol"> slave.channels 6> route_policy duplicate> }> > pcm.!default {> type plug> slave.pcm "softvol"> slave.channels 6> route_policy duplicate> }> --------------------------------------> > I got that snippet from alsa.opensrc.org, specifically for my chipset,> so I thought it should work out of the box.> > But unfortunately absolutely nothing happens. In neiter alsamixer nor> amixer do I get a new control called "SoftMaster".> > The config file is not being ignored, because when I add some garbage> alsamixer does not start up.> > Can somebody please help me?!> > Sebastian Schäfer> > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------> Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT> Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your> opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash> http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV> _______________________________________________> Alsa-user mailing list> Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user -------------------------------------------------------------------------Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of ITJoin SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share youropinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cashhttp://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV_______________________________________________Alsa-user mailing listAlsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
