On 2 September 2010 11:12, Cyril Russo <stage.nexvision@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > I've an issue with my new Creative Audigy sound card. > I'm using a Debian Squeeze (with official 2.6.32-5-amd64 kernel) system. > I've done this step to ensure I'm using the latest version: > sudo module-assistant auto-install alsa (which installed the driver from > alsa-driver 1.0.23's package) > > The sound card is correctly detected and it's working, but I've an > issue, in that each channel appears as a different device. > So in all the software using Alsa I have to select a device and it > outputs on a single stereo channel for this particular device. > > For example, this command lists: > # aplay -l > **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** > card 0: CA0106 [CA0106], device 0: ca0106 [CA0106] > Subdevices: 1/1 > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 > card 0: CA0106 [CA0106], device 1: ca0106 [CA0106] > Subdevices: 1/1 > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 > card 0: CA0106 [CA0106], device 2: ca0106 [CA0106] > Subdevices: 1/1 > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 > card 0: CA0106 [CA0106], device 3: ca0106 [CA0106] > Subdevices: 1/1 > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 > It is 4 stereo channels because that is what the hardware is. The hardware has an option to output 8 channels in one stream, but the xruns are atrocious in that mode as the hardware buffer used is too small. (I think it has 1ms of buffer or something un-useably small like that. I therefore only present the 4 stereo channels option in the driver. Kind Regards James ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
