I did a bit more experimenting, it seems that when I boot the system the sound is OK, all speakers have normal volume. After some time of using the system suddenly the front and center speakers become VERY quiet. not using sound that much, mostly flash (youtube etc. videos), xine to watch videos. any ideas how to investigate this further? don't see any changes in mixer, erik Erik Steffl wrote: > I have a weird problem, it seems that SOMETIME the rear speakers are > much louder the front speakers and center (5.1 setup). > > The symptom is similar to what it sounds like when master is down > (master only controls front/center on sb live!) but I truned on master > all the way up and the fron/center volume is still too low. > > I played with mixer, looked at settings, can't figure out why it > happens and why sometime the sound is fine. Tried several programs > (alsaplayer, xine, xmms, flash player in firefox etc.) and several > devices (various surround and stereo devices in programs that allow > that), nothing makes difference. > > any ideas how to troubleshoot this? or even which config files to > look at? > > my system: > > - debian unstable > > - alsa in kernel 2.6.18 (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver > Version 1.0.12rc1 (Thu Jun 22 13:55:50 2006 UTC).) > > - soundblaster live! platinum (with front drive) > > TIA, > > erik > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-user mailing list > Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
