You can find this chipset in quite a few cheap sound ( not audio cards ) I use one for music playback in a shop, I wouldn't use it for anything more than that. Its on par with a soundblaster / onboard motherboard sound solution On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 15:06, Jason White wrote: > Frank Barknecht writes: > > > > Not necessarily. Cassette tape is not exactly high end material. I > > don't think, your recordings will suffer much by recording them with > > the onboard card. But I don't know that special board and chip > > combination, so I would recommend you just try it out. > > I'm not familiar with the capabilities of the chip either. Neither is > it obvious how to interpret the following: > > arecord -l > **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices **** > card 0: CMI8738MC6 [C-Media PCI CMI8738-MC6], device 0: CMI8738-MC6 [C-Media PCI DAC/ADC] > Subdevices: 1/1 > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 > card 0: CMI8738MC6 [C-Media PCI CMI8738-MC6], device 2: CMI8738-MC6 [C-Media PCI IEC958] > Subdevices: 1/1 > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 > > If I run amixer I get the following. Without knowing the capabilities > of the chip it isn't clear what all the settings do. Is there a good HOWTO > guide or tutorial available? Some are obvious, e.g., master volume, > but others are not. I checked amixer(1) but it doesn't describe the > options or define the terminology used. > > Simple mixer control 'Master',0 > Capabilities: pvolume > Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right > Limits: Playback 0 - 31 > Front Left: Playback 28 [90%] > Front Right: Playback 28 [90%] > Simple mixer control '3D Control - Switch',0 > Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined > Playback channels: Mono > Mono: Playback [off] > Simple mixer control 'PCM',0 > Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch > Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right > Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right > Limits: Playback 0 - 31 > Front Left: Playback 24 [77%] [on] Capture [off] > Front Right: Playback 24 [77%] [on] Capture [off] > Simple mixer control 'Synth',0 > Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch > Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right > Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right > Limits: Playback 0 - 31 > Front Left: Playback 24 [77%] [on] Capture [off] > Front Right: Playback 24 [77%] [on] Capture [off] > Simple mixer control 'Line',0 > Capabilities: pvolume pswitch cswitch > Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right > Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right > Limits: Playback 0 - 31 > Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [off] Capture [off] > Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [off] Capture [off] > Simple mixer control 'Line-In As Bass',0 > Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined > Playback channels: Mono > Mono: Playback [off] > Simple mixer control 'Line-In As Rear',0 > Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined > Playback channels: Mono > Mono: Playback [off] > Simple mixer control 'CD',0 > Capabilities: pvolume pswitch cswitch > Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right > Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right > Limits: Playback 0 - 31 > Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [off] Capture [off] > Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [off] Capture [off] > Simple mixer control 'Mic',0 > Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined cvolume pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch cswitch-joined > Playback channels: Mono > Capture channels: Mono > Limits: Playback 0 - 31 Capture 0 - 7 > Mono: Playback 0 [0%] [off] Capture 0 [0%] [off] > Simple mixer control 'Mic As Center/LFE',0 > Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined > Playback channels: Mono > Mono: Playback [on] > Simple mixer control 'Mic Boost',0 > Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined > Playback channels: Mono > Mono: Playback [off] > Simple mixer control 'IEC958 5V',0 > Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined > Playback channels: Mono > Mono: Playback [on] > Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Copyright',0 > Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined > Playback channels: Mono > Mono: Playback [off] > Simple mixer control 'IEC958 In Monitor',0 > Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined > Playback channels: Mono > Mono: Playback [off] > Simple mixer control 'IEC958 In Phase Inverse',0 > Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined > Playback channels: Mono > Mono: Playback [off] > Simple mixer control 'IEC958 In Select',0 > Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined > Playback channels: Mono > Mono: Playback [off] > Simple mixer control 'IEC958 In Valid',0 > Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined > Playback channels: Mono > Mono: Playback [off] > Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Loop',0 > Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined > Playback channels: Mono > Mono: Playback [off] > Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Output',0 > Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined > Playback channels: Mono > Mono: Playback [off] > Simple mixer control 'PC Speaker',0 > Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined > Playback channels: Mono > Limits: Playback 0 - 3 > Mono: Playback 2 [67%] > Simple mixer control 'Aux',0 > Capabilities: pvolume pswitch cswitch > Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right > Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right > Limits: Playback 0 - 15 > Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [off] Capture [off] > Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [off] Capture [off] > Simple mixer control 'Four Channel Mode',0 > Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined > Playback channels: Mono > Mono: Playback [on] > > > !DSPAM:412998239056804268171! -- Alexander MacLennan PhD Student Curtin University of Technology +61 8 9266 2129
