On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 09:50 -0700, stan wrote:
> Ric Moore wrote:
> > Is there any particular reason that alsaconf is not included in Fedora?
> > If it works and it's simple, I'd like to see it. I'm getting a blooming
> > headache reading the "howtos" to set up 6 channel sound. I've used
> > kasound in the past and it worked well. Now, it's not doing the trick
> > for whatever reason. Setting up speakers shouldn't be a weekend's worth
> > of work, if there is a nice gentle-to-the-user gui out there. Thanx! Ric
> >
> >
> I can't speak to why alsaconf is not included. But if your sound card
> supports
> 5.1, alsa should already have created a shortcut to use it. At a
> command line
> run aplay -lLv. If you see something in the output that looks like
> surround51,
> that means that is the device you have to use to play 5.1.
>
> In your home directory, create a file called .asoundrc. In that file
> put this
> code.
>
> pcm.!default {
> surround51
> }
> ctl.!default {
> surround51
> }
>
> This should make surround 5.1 your default sound configuration. You can
> test this
> by running
>
> aplay -D default some.wav
>
> Sound should come from all speakers.
>
> You can test whether surround51 is defined by running
>
> aplay -D surround51 some.wav
>
> Here is the link I consulted for this:
> http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Asoundrc
Yup, read that one. I have 6 speakers (6.0) My Ali Corp M5455 has
speaker-out, line-out and line-in. But, you can plug stereo speakers
into all three and with the right settings, get nice front, middle, rear
out. kasound worked great until the last update. It would generate the
correct .asoundrc file for you. Really sweet app, but it hasn't been
supported for a couple of years now and is long in the tooth. I was just
hoping to find a nice little gui, tell it what I have, and let it edit
the file for me. You know, just like Windows. <someone shoot me for
saying that! :) >
But I did google and found quite a few methods of composing
the .asoundrc file. So, I found an rpm for alsaconf but it was for Suse
or Mandrake and requires rpms we don't have so I scrapped that notion.
So, being as the alsa crowd has a gui-configuration scheme, it would be
nice to have it for Fedora. Thank you again for your response, I'll give
it a go and see what happens! Ric
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