hopey wrote: > Hi, I've got soundblaster live! audiocard and I'm trying to use it in > combination with logitech Z-650 surround speakers. The digital coaxial > output doesn't seem to work at all. All I get is just some noise. > > speaker-test -c 6 -Dplughw:0,0 > > I don't know if it is even possible to get the digital sound working > with logitech speakers. Are the coaxial plugs similar in these > devices? > > In analog setup with speaker-test -c 6 -D surround51 doesn't give > center or LFE channel. There is something funny going on in the > middle/LFE/digital out plug... > > speaker-test -c 6 -D surround51 > > speaker-test 1.0.11rc2 > > Playback device is surround51 > Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 6 channels > Using 16 octaves of pink noise > Rate set to 48000Hz (requested 48000Hz) > Buffer size range from 64 to 16384 > Period size range from 16 to 16384 > Periods = 4 > Buffer time size 2525 > To choose buffer_size = 16384 > To choose period_size = 4096 > was set period_size = 4096 > was set buffer_size = 16384 > 0 - Front Left > 4 - Center > 1 - Front Right > 3 - Rear Right > 2 - Rear Left > 5 - LFE > > Last problem is a question of how can I restart alsa in fedora core 5? > It used to be in /etc/rc.d/init/alsasomething but I can't find any > kind of script there anymore. Now if and when my alsa hangs, the only > way to deal with the situation is to reboot the pc. This is too WinME > solution. How can I reboot alsa? Could we get the script back where it > should be? Thanks for your time and patience. > > hopey > not sure if you have it or not, but this sound card requires you have a dongle thing from creative to output the digital sound to some external device. without this, you will just get the noise. http://creative.com/products/product.asp?category=13&subcategory=55&product=1780 -- Anthony - http://messinet.com - http://messinet.com/~amessina/gallery 8F89 5E72 8DF0 BCF0 10BE 9967 92DC 35DC B001 4A4E
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