On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 06:27:23PM -0230, Juhan Leemet wrote: > Eric Rz. wrote: > > If i'm not mistaken the 2496 is an ice1712 based card. You should use > > envy24control instead of alsamixer. Things will make much more sense. Be > > sure to check out the command line options available to limit the number > > of channels it displays. > > Yes, I have one of those cards, too. Nice. Good quality audio. It is ice1712 > based and envy24control works fine. > > Hmm, I had a look for the command line options for envy24control in the man > page. Couldn't find anything to adjust number of input channels displayed. > That's with the alsa-tools-0.9.0rc6-53 that comes with SuSE 8.2. Maybe a > later one adds them? My envy24control shows all 10 PCM input channels of the > internal ice1712, even though the Audiophile-2496 only has 2 analog and SPDIF > digital (2 channels) inputs from the outside world. I haven't explored all > permutations and combinations of the panels. 0.9.0rc6 is pretty old. The news items listed at alsa-project.org put that somewhere between these 2 dates: 2003-01-28 0.9.0 release candidate #7 (alsa-driver, alsa-lib, alsa-utils and alsa-tools packages) is available for download. 2002-10-25 The fix for GCC 3.2 has been integrated into the 0.9.0rc5 package. Please, redownload the updated package from our server when you reached this problem. (New package is dated 2002/10/25) is there anything mentioned if you do: envy24control --help Most of the time I'm only working with 2 channels of my Delta66 so I start it something like this (may not be exact, I'm not at home so I can't check): envy24control -i2 -o2 -p2 -s0 & For 2 in, 2 out, 2pcm and 0 spidif. > Elsewhere, I've grumbled about the "lack of integration" between apps like > audacity and xmms volume slider and the envy24control. The volume sliders on > the apps are "dead". You MUST control the volume on the envy24control. Dunno > if that's a permanent condition? ...likely to get fixed? how? Not sure what to say about that ... I haven't used audacity and I never cared for xmms. I use alsaplayer when I just want a simple player and ecasound for most everything else. I'm not sure, but I think these apps scale the volume internally rather than messing with the mixer controls ... > BTW, I think I also had a "lock up" problem when trying to change clock source > between internal and SPDIF (back to internal?), using envy24control. I had to > "kick it around" before the change would "take". I'm not sure if SPDIF stuff > works, or is supported. I had other problems to fix, so I didn't pursue that > any farther. Sorry. I have a Johnson J-Station (guitar amp modeler) which > could provide SPDIF outputs, but I'm currently running its analog outputs > through a Peavey RQ-200 6 channel mixer into the Audiophile-2496 analog PCM 1 > & 2 inputs. That works well enough, and I'm not desperate for more channels. > Converting A/D/A/D doesn't seem that bad, but I haven't listened that > closely. Good enough for the likes of me. I can put off wrestling with SPDIF > for a (long?) while. The engineer in me likes to see everything work. I have vague memories of problems like this being fixed in more recent releases. -Eric Rz.
