Comments on: The USB soundcard story http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2005/09/20/the-usb-soundcard-story/ Just another GNOME Blogs weblog Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:56:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Owen Williams http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2005/09/20/the-usb-soundcard-story/#comment-58 Owen Williams Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2005/09/20/the-usb-soundcard-story/#comment-58 I went through the same problems with usb audio cards, and eventually bought an M-Audio Sonica Theater. It also has an unsupported spdif, but it has 6 channels of analog output too. Here is the .asoundrc fragment I came up with to get it to work in xine, totem, etc. It assumes the m-audio is the second audio hardware device.<p/>pcm.my_surround51 {<br/> type route<br/> slave.pcm "hw:1"<br/> slave.channels 6<br/> ttable.0.0 1<br/> ttable.1.1 1<br/> ttable.2.4 1<br/> ttable.3.5 1<br/> ttable.4.2 1<br/> ttable.5.3 1<br/>}<p/><br/>In xine, set your speaker setup to 5.1, and the 5.1 output device to "my_surround51" and it works. I can also provide a 6-channel test .wav file if you need it.<br/> I went through the same problems with usb audio cards, and eventually bought an M-Audio Sonica Theater. It also has an unsupported spdif, but it has 6 channels of analog output too. Here is the .asoundrc fragment I came up with to get it to work in xine, totem, etc. It assumes the m-audio is the second audio hardware device.

pcm.my_surround51 {
type route
slave.pcm “hw:1″
slave.channels 6
ttable.0.0 1
ttable.1.1 1
ttable.2.4 1
ttable.3.5 1
ttable.4.2 1
ttable.5.3 1
}

In xine, set your speaker setup to 5.1, and the 5.1 output device to “my_surround51″ and it works. I can also provide a 6-channel test .wav file if you need it.

]]> By: pzad http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2005/09/20/the-usb-soundcard-story/#comment-59 pzad Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2005/09/20/the-usb-soundcard-story/#comment-59 AFAIK Creative provide very little docs. For cards with DSP none. AFAIK no one from creative works on linux drivers. AFAIK with 2.6.13 kernel Audigy 2 NX supports 8 channel 24 bit 96 kHz. I don't know anything about spdif. AFAIK Creative provide very little docs. For cards with DSP none. AFAIK no one from creative works on linux drivers. AFAIK with 2.6.13 kernel Audigy 2 NX supports 8 channel 24 bit 96 kHz. I don’t know anything about spdif.

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