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anthonyclark

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From: WA,USA

Registered: 2007-10-07

Posts: 48

Troubles with Multiple Audio Streams.[ca0106]

Hey everyone.

I have a few issues on my hands that i just cannot seem to get a strait foward answer.
First off, i have a Sound Blaster Live! 24bit pci sound card. Sound plays perfect as well as surround sound.

My issue is that i cannot get mulitiple things to play sound at once. All of the correct modules are loaded just fine and working well. I do believe that when i was using gentoo and could play multiple audio streams, i had alsa built into my kernel.... in arch i dont believe i do.

Im trying not to build my kernel all over again in arch because i think its something in arch i may be  doing wrong...

Thanks
Anthony

Last edited by anthonyclark (2008-04-02 13:30:58)

xaw

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From: Chapel Hill

Registered: 2007-08-09

Posts: 177

Re: Troubles with Multiple Audio Streams.[ca0106]

Are you by chance using the OSS sound output instead of ALSA? iirc, soundblaster cards work best using ALSA - so that might be the caveat you have here.

Good luck :-)

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The water never asked for a channel, and the channel never asked for water.

anthonyclark

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From: WA,USA

Registered: 2007-10-07

Posts: 48

Re: Troubles with Multiple Audio Streams.[ca0106]

Thanks for the reply.

I know for a fact im using ALSA. Since i made that post, ive been doing as much research as possible. I found on ubuntuforums, some dude posted some configs for his ca0106 sound card. I tried them and they take me to the same fork.

Surround Sound .... or .... Multiple audio streams.

So the big questions is, is it possible to have both? And would compiling a new kernel with ALSA and support for my card make a difference?

Thanks!
anthony

Last edited by anthonyclark (2008-04-02 15:25:48)

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: Troubles with Multiple Audio Streams.[ca0106]

is it possible to have both?

Probably not yet. I expect it will be, when pulseaudio improves a bit.

anthonyclark

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From: WA,USA

Registered: 2007-10-07

Posts: 48

Re: Troubles with Multiple Audio Streams.[ca0106]

Thanks for your time brotha. Much appriciated.

Note that previously ive had both workin ... but that was in ubuntu. I dont remember which configs i used... oh well. If i unplug the rear channel from my woofer, the front channels duplicate to the rear.

Thanks!
anthony