On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 7:22 AM, Andre Bischof <a.bischof@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to alsa, so the problems I encounter are probably my own fault - > but I would appreciate any help very much. > > I've a 5.1 "nVidia CK804 AC'97 Audio Controller" integrated sound card > on my "Gigabyte GA-K8N Ultra-9", which works fine so far. > > Now I'm trying to split front and rear output to use them for master and > headphone output in mixxx (dj mixer app). > > But this doesn't work, I always get the master output on the headphones > as well. > > I changed switches from Shared to Independent and tried 2ch/4ch/6ch in > both kmix and alsamixer, but the problem remains. > > BTW, I'm running Debian Testing/Unstable with KDE 3.5.x. I've no > soundserver running in KDE's Control Center (arts etc). My kernel is > 2.6.24-1-686-bigmem. > > Sound works fine so far, I guess all necessary modules are loaded and > running: > > # lsmod |grep snd_intel8x0 > snd_intel8x0 32828 3 > snd_ac97_codec 93700 1 snd_intel8x0 > snd_pcm 72612 5 > snd_usb_audio,snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec > snd 49380 19 > snd_usb_audio,snd_rawmidi,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device > snd_page_alloc 10888 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm > > (usb_audio is a webcam with a mic only). > > I tried to follow > http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Splitting_front_and_rear_outputs_.asoundrc > as my .asoundrc, but it doesn't have effect. frontx/rearx shows up and I > can use it in mixxx, but sound is on both simultanously, no splitting :( > > Could anyone tell me how my .asoundrc should look like to achieve > splitting or if it could be done in another way? > > > Any clues? > > Cheers > Frisco > > > -- > Personal weblog and more: http://bischof.homelinux.net > This is the way that I've done it, and it works everytime. pcm_slave.eightchannels { pcm "hw:1,0" # or "hw:1,0" for the second card channels 8 } pcm.stereo1 { type plug slave.pcm { type dshare ipc_key 87882222 slave eightchannels bindings [ 0 1 ] } } pcm.stereo2 { type plug slave.pcm { type dshare ipc_key 87882222 slave eightchannels bindings [ 2 3 ] } } pcm.stereo3 { type plug slave.pcm { type dshare ipc_key 87882222 slave eightchannels bindings [ 4 5 ] } } ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user