High Petar, you should update to ALSA 1.0.10. that helped me. can you record with your card? you can send me the complete amixer output offlist , if you want to. sizu c~ Am Donnerstag 10 November 2005 14:29 schrieb Petar Nedyalkov: > Hello list, > > I've successfully installed ALSA on my server, having two Terratec PHASE 28 > cards. The problem is that from all 8 sound outs, the mixer recognises as > stereo pairs only four. > > The `amixer -c 0` output is as follows: > > Simple mixer control 'Master',0 > Capabilities: pvolume pswitch > Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right > Limits: Playback 0 - 255 > Front Left: Playback 255 [100%] [on] > Front Right: Playback 255 [100%] [on] > Simple mixer control 'PCM',0 > Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined > Playback channels: Mono > Limits: Playback 0 - 128 > Mono: Playback 128 [100%] [on] > Simple mixer control 'Front',0 > Capabilities: pvolume pswitch > Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right > Limits: Playback 0 - 127 > Front Left: Playback 127 [100%] [on] > Front Right: Playback 127 [100%] [on] > Simple mixer control 'Center',0 > Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined > Playback channels: Mono > Limits: Playback 0 - 127 > Mono: Playback 127 [100%] [on] > Simple mixer control 'LFE',0 > Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined > Playback channels: Mono > Limits: Playback 0 - 127 > Mono: Playback 127 [100%] [on] > Simple mixer control 'Side',0 > Capabilities: pvolume pswitch > Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right > Limits: Playback 0 - 127 > Front Left: Playback 127 [100%] [on] > Front Right: Playback 127 [100%] [on] > > As you can see, the mixer controls Side and Front are stereo (i.e. have two > channels), but the mixer controls Center and LFE are mono. > > The same goes to my second Terratec PHASE 28 card. > > Unfortunately, I had installed the same versions of ALSA and the channels > were OK. But after I reinstalled my server - the Center and LFE stereo > channels became mono. > > I'm using ALSA drivers 1.0.9, ALSA utils 1.0.9 and ALSA lib 1.0.9. > > Has anyone solved this problem? I need 4 stereo channels but not 2 stereo > and 2 mono.