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Barghest

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From: Hanau/Germany

Registered: 2008-01-03

Posts: 563

Experiences with Logitech Z-10 speakers

Hi,

I don't know if this is the correct section of the forum, so if you think it should be posted somewhere else just tell me.

The forum search didn't give me any threads ("z-10" really isn't  a good search term), where people talk about their experiences with the speakers mentioned in the topic (Link to product page).

These speakers have an internal sound device and I want to know if they work under Arch. The same for the built in display and the multimedia keys.

I'm looking forward to your advice.

Barghest

shazeal

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2007-06-05

Posts: 341

Re: Experiences with Logitech Z-10 speakers

I got some for free off a mate a few weeks ago. Yep the internal "sound card" works fine in both Alsa and OSS4, the keys all seem to work fine with the g15daemon running. I have g15mpd and g15stats running as well its pretty cool, and the huge clock is nice
Although I already have an Audigy 2 sound card so I just disabled the usb-audio device on the z10 left the usb plugged in. So I use the Audigy for sound as the usb-audio chews up loads of CPU just like onboard sound. If you arent concerned about CPU usage then its great, they sound awsome, bass response is amazing, and the high end is really nice too.

Barghest

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From: Hanau/Germany

Registered: 2008-01-03

Posts: 563

Re: Experiences with Logitech Z-10 speakers

Thanks for your reply shazeal,

as I currently only have onboard sound I'm not concerned about the CPU usage.

Another option for me have been the Creative GigaWorks T20 Series II but you shifted me towards the Z-10.

I'll inform me first about the g15 things, though.

Barghest

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From: Hanau/Germany

Registered: 2008-01-03

Posts: 563

Re: Experiences with Logitech Z-10 speakers

The Z-10 now stand on my desk

I had to change the "order" of the sound devices to get them work.

What did not work out of the box where the keys for volume +/- and mute. For them I edited my .xbindkeysrc:

"amixer sset PCM 10+ &"
    m:0x10 + c:123
"amixer sset PCM 10- &"
    m:0x10 + c:122
"amixer sset PCM toggle &"
    m:0x10 + c:121

I also tried g15daemon and g15mpd. With g15daemon the three keys don't work too. Additional the daemon causes the speaker controls to freeze. The keys don't react and I can't even adjust the volume through sonata (or what else) since the volume stays on the same level.

I can't load alsamixer and I get the following message:

alsamixer: function snd_mixer_load failed: Invalid argument

The same with g15mpd that also causes the display to freeze.

Nothing helps but rebooting.

Am I doing something wrong? I have g15daemon in my rc.conf - and sometime start g15mpd via gmrun. I also tried the module uinput.

Last edited by Barghest (2008-12-27 20:53:00)

Barghest

Member

From: Hanau/Germany

Registered: 2008-01-03

Posts: 563

Re: Experiences with Logitech Z-10 speakers

Hi,

there is also another issue: the speakers are way too loud. In alsamixer the speakers are at 2 % and it is very loud.

Is there a way to lower the default volume?

shazeal

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2007-06-05

Posts: 341

Re: Experiences with Logitech Z-10 speakers

Put this in your ~/.Xmodmap (Stolen from my main machine which runs gentoo that will sort all the keys. For the speaker volume I noticed that too when I tried them standalone, however I use the Audigy to play the sound so dont have the problem, and the usb module acts as a dummy just so I can control the speaker volume. Its almost certainly an ALSA problem since OSS4 controls the speaker volume fine.

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Last edited by shazeal (2009-01-07 12:38:26)