Hi, I've been beating my had against this for several weeks now. (started with fedora 6, tried adding in the plugings etc (version 1.0.12) -- also tried upgrading to the current 1.0.14 version, without success (couldn't produce surround-sound on teh spdif output). I have now switched to fedorea 7 and was able to have rythmbox play surround sound via spdif, but have since lost that ability. (but I'm convinced the hardware and low-level drivers support it). In order to limit the number of moving parts, I have reduced to just trying to get speaker-test to play on all 6 speakers. from pirut & I have alsa-lib 1.0.14-0.4.rc3.fc7.ppc(64) and alsa-utils 1.0.14-0.7.rc2.fc7.ppc The default install has no asound.conf file. (attempts to create a "better" one didn't improve the situation). I do not see a file matching the ps3 device in etc/alsa/cards nor etc/alsa/pcm, but I have not found any documentation on adding entries to the above directories. [root@ps3 pcm0p]# cat /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/info card: 0 device: 0 subdevice: 0 stream: PLAYBACK id: SPDIF name: SPDIF subname: subdevice #0 class: 0 subclass: 0 subdevices_count: 1 subdevices_avail: 1 [root@ps3 ~]# aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: PS3 [PS3], device 0: SPDIF [SPDIF] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 [root@ps3 ~]# aplay -L null Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture) [root@ps3 ~]# amixer [root@ps3 ~]# amixer scontrols [root@ps3 ~]# speaker-test -c 6 speaker-test 1.0.14rc2 Playback device is default Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_BE, 6 channels Using 16 octaves of pink noise Rate set to 48000Hz (requested 48000Hz) Buffer size range from 4096 to 8192 Period size range from 256 to 256 Using max buffer size 8192 Periods = 4 was set period_size = 256 was set buffer_size = 8192 0 - Front Left 4 - Center 1 - Front Right 3 - Rear Right 2 - Rear Left 5 - LFE Time per period = 17.821324 * above test only produces sound on channels 0 & 1. xmms produces no sound and emits the following: ** WARNING **: alsa_setup_mixer(): Failed to find mixer element: PCM Is it possible to get some help/pointers in the right direction? thanks GT* * _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
