---- Abhijit Shylanath <abhijit.shylanath@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I have tried enabling everything but the only option that gave my any noticable difference in sound was when I enabled "analog Mix". I could discern a slightly louder background noise. > > Hm. I'm not really the expert here, but my guess is that it's just a > problem with the mixer using digital output when you have an analog > card. Try toggling "Analog/digital output' in alsamixer. How do you do that? > You may have > to use 'alsamixer -c 1' if you have an onboard card. Press F5 to > enable all channels, and then look for that channel. Press m to > toggle. While you're there, you may also want to blindly turn > everything up (so that it's at around and below 75). > I tried alsamixer -c 1 which gets the built-in Intel sound chip and I tried alsamixer -c 0 which gets my Audigy card. Everything was enabled and the volumes looked good. > Also, I realize now that the Audigy has a different driver from the > Live!, so your outputs will be labelled differently.