On Tuesday 11 September 2007 08:30:12 Alex Roitman wrote: > 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 The Revo 7.1 does not have a headphone output so I can't comment on this. Everything else is more or less working with the exception of output from OSS emulation not going to the default outputs that I have setup in .asoundrc. I suspect this is an alsa configuration issue but at this point I don't know what is causing this. And of course the other issue is how difficult it is to understand how the mixer controls work. At this point I still have no idea what most of these do or how to use them to control how the card functions. This could be fixed with some documentation perhaps. But I also suspect that the drivers for this have been changing and are not yet fully stabilized so it may be difficult to document how this works since the next version of the driver could very well invalidate the documentation. > > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
