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RhahkJin

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From: Tübingen, Germany

Registered: 2007-12-05

Posts: 13

[solved] alsa: duplicate front signal

Hi,

I got a new sound device today, a Terratec Aureon Sky 5.1.
The driver of my old device offerd me a switch called "duplicate front", which made it possible to plug a second amplifier to the card's rear output and get the same signal as from the front output. As the new device doesn't offer this switch in alsamixer, is there another way to do this?
Another (worse) option would be to have both devices installed, but I can't get them to work simoultanously, I only get a signal on the default card (device 0). How can I make them work parallel?

Thanks, RhahkJin

Last edited by RhahkJin (2008-10-11 11:56:25)

RhahkJin

Member

From: Tübingen, Germany

Registered: 2007-12-05

Posts: 13

Re: [solved] alsa: duplicate front signal

Solved, here is the ~/.asoundrc that mada it work (found in gentoo wiki):

pcm.!dmix {
   type dmix
   ipc_key 1024
   slave {
       pcm "hw:0,0"
       channels 6
   }
}
pcm.!default {
   type plug
   slave.pcm "dmix"
   slave.channels 6
   route_policy duplicate
}