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stiffy420

Member

Registered: 2009-12-11

Posts: 99

Alsaequal

Hi guys!

Im trying to get alsaequal to work, with no luck. i get it to start but none of the frequency bars make any changes to the sound.

my .asoundrc looks like this:

ctl.equal {
  type equal;
}

pcm.plugequal {
  type equal;
  # Modify the line below if you don't
  # want to use sound card 0.
  slave.pcm "plughw:0,0";
  # or if you want to use with multiple applications output to dmix
  # slave.pcm "plug:dmix"
}

pcm.equal {
  # Or if you want the equalizer to be your
  # default soundcard uncomment the following
  # line and comment the above line.
# pcm.!default {
  type plug;
  slave.pcm plugequal;
}

i just copypasted the default from: http://www.thedigitalmachine.net/alsaequal.html

if i remember it right it worked by doing this on my old laptop.

Maybe the problem is that im trying to get this to work systemwide. is that even possible? i mean, i use chromium and spotify for sound only. maybe i have to have a different .asoundrc?

EDIT: aplay -l gives this:

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: CONEXANT Analog [CONEXANT Analog]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 1: Conexant Digital [Conexant Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Last edited by stiffy420 (2012-02-24 21:07:30)

skunktrader

Member

From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2010-02-14

Posts: 1,680

Re: Alsaequal

Did you try changing

pcm.equal {
  # Or if you want the equalizer to be your
  # default soundcard uncomment the following
  # line and comment the above line.
# pcm.!default {

to

#pcm.equal {
  # Or if you want the equalizer to be your
  # default soundcard uncomment the following
  # line and comment the above line.
pcm.!default {

stiffy420

Member

Registered: 2009-12-11

Posts: 99

Re: Alsaequal

i solved it by installing pulseaudio & pulseaudio-equalizer. works great!

edit: thanks for your reply skunktrader. i tried chaning asoundrc like you said, but with no luck. too bad, cause pluseaudio is much more resource hungry than alsa.

Last edited by stiffy420 (2012-02-25 12:42:37)