FC3 & ALSA config questions
Marcel Janssen
korgull at home.nl
Sun May 22 07:22:24 UTC 2005
On Saturday 21 May 2005 22:33, you wrote:
> Whenever I try running system-config-soundcard it recognizes the sound
> card but playing test sounds fails. If I use aplay I've been able to play
> .ogg & .wav files over the stereo. However I can't get any sound out of
> mythtv and when I trigger the system bell (tab completion, etc.) I get a
> really annoying sound out of the stereo.
Perhaps your card is still configured for analog out only.
What does : aplay -Dspdif xxxxxx.wav do ?
> First off, is there any good source of documentation on the
> /etc/asound.conf file?
http://www.alsa-project.org/documentation.php is in general a good way to
start.
Anyway asound.conf is the system wide implementation of asoundrc. So, the
documentation for asoundrc should apply here.
I've installed a new soundcard myself yesterday and didn't need to touch any
other file than /etc/asound.state to make it work for optical spdif. Actually
the card can also do analog and spdif at the same time which not every card
can do I believe. It's a terratec Aureon 5.1 PCI card which I can certainly
recommend. I had everything working in FC3 in just a few minutes.
I also suggest to use gnome-alsamixer to set the mixer settings. It's much
easier than alsamixer. After you set the mixer controls correct, you can use
"alsactl store" to store them.
> Also, can somebody explain the purpose of the files in /etc/alsa and
> /etc/alsa/cards?
No /etc/alsa or /etc/alsa/cards here.
Mine are in /usr/share/alsa, perhaps because I installed some newer packages
from different repositories (atrpms.net). I think this just holds some
default configurations for soundcards.
Regards,
Marcel
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