Folks, Please excuse me. I am not a pro-sound guy, just someone who wanted one of the best sounding cards around. I may dabble in pro stuff but for now i just want a stereo input and good volume control capabilities. My set up is the following: Sourcemage gnu/linux (think of it as Gentoo but bash kinda), kernel 2.6.22, alsa modules compiled from kernel, alsa-lib 1.0.15.rc2 and alsa-tools 1.0.14. I don't have any parameters when loading the modules, the just load up with the defaults. I have this card making wonderful sound with amarok, mplayer, xine all sorts of things. Great stereo. I can adjust DAC 0 and DAC 1 to control the left/right channels. I can do the same in kmix or alsamixer or what have you. What i want is to be able to have one slider that controls all the volumes. I want to set the DAC 0 and DAC 1 (to equal volumes in my case) and slide one slider up and down to change the relative volume of both. Like a master control. I can't find such a control in either alsamixer or envy24control. My next question may not be appropriate for this list, but what corresponds to stereo in? I'm assuming it's the 2 mic inputs (once i set the jumpers). I need to get sound from my Dishnetwork set top box which has unbalanced analog jacks and optical out and i'm not sure hot to hook that up. Should i get some sort of balanced to unbalanced converter cable or convert the optical to spidif? If i can just use 3 and 4 that's fine, but i have no idea how to tell alsa/mythtv that these are the stereo inputs i want to use. If i can't get the inputs right, i can just use my crappy soundblaster exitigy for input but i'd rather do this through the m-audio if possible. Thanks all. Please let me know if i have left any information out. Bearcat M. Sandor ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
