Sound Blaster Live! works only in stereo
Bug #141102 reported by
Soos Gergely
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Ubuntu |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: alsa-utils
I bought a Creative SB Live and it was autodetected however I can't get it to work in 6 channel mode.
I tried the setting the extin/extout module options (as described in this page: http://
The most annoying thing is that I bought this soundcard because the harware support page (https:/
I use the very latest version of everything in Feisty, I did my test with MPlayer.
Please help!
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| Soos Gergely (sogerc1) wrote | #1 |
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| Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote | #2 |
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| Soos Gergely (sogerc1) wrote | #3 |
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I think my previous post wasn't detailed enough, my apologies, I was really disappointed.
So, lspci -vvv shows about the card:
00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07)
Subsystem: Creative Labs SBLive! 5.1 Model SB0100
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 248 (500ns min, 5000ns max)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 18
Region 0: I/O ports at e000 [size=32]
alsamixer -c 2 shows the propper mixer channels like Master,
Here is the output of mplayer, but only the parts regarding to audio:
....
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
dec_audio: Allocating 3840 bytes for input buffer.
dec_audio: Allocating 18432 + 65536 = 83968 bytes for output buffer.
AC3: 5.1 (3f+2r+lfe) 48000 Hz 448.0 kbit/s
A52 flags before a52_frame: 0x37
A52 flags after a52_frame: 0x17
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 6 ch, s16le, 448.0 kbit/9.72% (ratio: 56000->576000)
ID_AUDIO_
ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000
ID_AUDIO_NCH=6
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52)
=======
Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/6ch/s16le -> 0Hz/0ch/??...
[libaf] Adding filter resample
[resample] Changing sample rate to 48000Hz
[libaf] Adding filter volnorm
[libaf] Removing filter resample
alsa-init: requested format: 48000 Hz, 6 channels, 9
alsa-init: using ALSA 1.0.13
alsa-init: device set to surround51
alsa-init: using device hw:2
alsa-init: pcm opend in blocking mode
alsa-init: chunksize set to 1024
alsa-init: fragcount=16
alsa-init: got buffersize=65536
alsa-init: got period size 1024
alsa: 48000 Hz/2 channels/4 bpf/65536 bytes buffer/Signed 16 bit Little Endian
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
AO: Description: ALSA-0.9.x-1.x audio output
AO: Author: Alex Beregszaszi, Zsolt Barat <email address hidden>
AO: Comment: under developement
Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/6ch/s16le -> 48000Hz/
[libaf] Adding filter channels
[channels] Changing number of channels to 2
ID_AUDIO_CODEC=a52
...
In my speakers I can hear only the rear channels. But if I start mplayer without the channels=6 option all of my speakers works but only in stereo.
What should I do?