Hal, I am thinking of getting myself a Revo, either 5.1 or 7.1. Apart from your mic issues, are there any other problems? In particular, I saw older postings saying that the headphone output was not working. Does it work for you? Thanks, Alex On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 16:31 -0700, Hal V. Engel wrote: > I just had one of these given to me and I was (am) hopeful that it will > actually be an improvement over the motherboard audio I was using. It did > improve some things in particular the old setup would interact with my > graphics card and make noises based on things that happened on the display. > The Revo does not do this. I was also never able to get the digital outs > working on my old setup and this mostly works with the Revo (pass through 5.1 > and stereo are working nicely). The sound I am getting out of it is very > high quality and if I could solve the microphone level problem I would be a > happy camper. > > I have not been able to get a microphone to work in an acceptable manor > since the gain on the mic is way too low to be useable and I have not found a > way to allow for the gain level to be changed. At first I though that > perhaps the mic connection was not providing power (+5V) to the mic. But I > tested with two self powered mics (IE. mics with a battery) and it did not > make any difference. I found some threads about this in the archives for > this list but these were apparently for an earlier version of alsa and the > information about how to configure this did not match what I was seeing in > alsamixer. For example, the threads here talked about using the DAC and DAC > 1 devices as part of the microphone setup. These devices do not show up when > I run alsamixer with the version of the drivers I have. > > TeamSpeak does not seem to be able to find the mic at all. What OSS device > would this be since /dev/dsp does not appear to work (it does exist however)? > Mumble does find the mic since it is alsa based and it's audio setup wizard > shows that the device it is using works other than not having enough gain. > Shouting as loud as I can with the mic located so that it is almost touching > my lips results in the bar going about 30% over into the green area in the > volume tuning part of the wizard. It should cover at least 95% of the the > green during these loud peaks. > > Using alsamixer has been very frustrating with this sound card since the names > of the "devices" are all hardware level and there is NO documentation to help > figure out how to configure these to do useful (and required) things like > having a working microphone. Or getting sourround sound working in anything > other than passthrough mode. It also appears that what devices show up in > alsamixer depends on what version of the driver is installed and that this > has invalidated what little information I was able to find that was based on > how people got this working on older versions of the driver. The only > control that shows up in alsamixer when I select the Capture view is Multi > Track Peak which is read only. I can not find a way to set a capture > device or change any setting related to the capture device. > > I am using kernel 2.6.22 with the default kernal module. It appears that this > is alsa version 1.0.14. I also tried it without kernal modules using the > alsa-driver. This did not affect how it worked. I used alsa-driver 1.0.14. > Should I be using something else with this card? Do I need some additional > utilities to configure this card? > > Thanks in advance for your assistance. > > Hal -- Alexander Roitman http://gramps-project.org
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