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About 3 years ago I bought the first version of the Creative SoundBlaster Platinum, the one that comes with the Live!Drive. I do not belive it is a 5.1, it does not say that anywhere on the box, enven though it has both "front" and "rear" speaker outs. The live drive has: SPIDIF in, SPIDIF out, 1/4 Headphone (out) with level control knob, 1/4 Line in with level control know, MIDI in, MIDI out. Nothing else, does not have an IR port. The PCI card is <joystick/midi>, "rear" out, "front" out (that's what I hook my speakers up too, no sound comes out of "rear" out), microphone in, line in (or line int /mic in) and digital out. (I think that's all, it's hard to see and that's how I remember it being. I know the mic in, line in and "front" out all work on the PCI card. Work as in, I can hear mic or line audio in comming out of the "Front" out. I really really want to be able to use the headphone out and line in on my Live!Drive, and every indication is tht this _can_ be done, but I can't find clear-cut instructions on this. Before we go any further I have actually wondered it possibly my card is bad. Don't rule it out. I don't have Windows so I cna't see if it's working right in Windows (I know it did when I first bought the card 3 years ago). First, I'm using SuSE 8.1 (I've tried this on many versions of SuSE though), alsa-0.9.0.cvs20020903-13, kernel 2.4.19-4GB. The relative entries for /etc/modules.conf: options snd-emu10k1 snd_enable=1 snd_extin=0x3fc3 snd_extout=0x1fcf snd_index=0 options snd snd_cards_limit=1 snd_major=116 # bSAa.6S9Jn9_7V7B:CT4760 SBLive! alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1 # YaST2: sound system dependent part # alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-11 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss I belive those are correct, they match the document numbers for * Creative Card w/Digital out + LiveDrive [0x3fc3/0x1fcf] There is a CD digital in on the PCI card, I'm pretty sure, but I would think yast detects this correctly. Maybe not, what do you think? Anyway, let's start with the headphone. For this I am using the console version of alsamixer. Inside alsamixer (and this is the order they're shown in ): This info is shown at the top: Card: Sound Blaster Live! Chip: TriTech TR28602 Master: this changes the master volume Master Mono: this doesn't seem to have an effect on anythign, and is muted by default Headphone LFE 1: This is 0/0 and muted by default. unmuting it does nothing. It is not possible to increase it's volume with the up arrow key, as is the case with all known-good adjustments (that's how I raise master, for example) Headphone 1 unmuted by default. I can adjust it but it does not seem to effect anything. Headphone Center 1 0/0 by default, level cannot be adjust. Tone Bass Treble PCM Surround Digital 100/100 by default Surround Digital Capture unmuted 0/0 by default Cener unmuted 100/100 default LFE ditto Wave ditto Wave Capture unmuted 0/0 default Wave Center ditto Wave LFE ditto Wave Surround ditto Music 100/100 unmuted default Music Capture 00 unmuted default Line 0/0 muted Line LiveDrive changing this does not help (yes, I tried setting it as the "capture' source) Line LiveDrive Capture level adjustment does not help. Can't be set to "capture" Line LiveDrive 1 adjusting this doens't help CD Mic Mic Boost Video Phone There are a host of others: IEC958 C IEC958 C IEC958 O IEC958 O IEC958 O PC Speak Aux Capture Mix Mix Mono AC97 AC97 Cap EMU10K1 EMU10K1 EMU10K1 EMU10K1 EMU10K1 EMU10K1 EMU10K1 EMU10K1 EMU10K1 EMU10K1 External SB Live I have tried many of them, in many dirrent combinations of capture and level. I tried most of these things with the volume knobs on the Live Drive either full blasst 100% or 80% By the way, what is the meaning of the 6 dashes above certain channelsliek Surround Wave and Music? I have tried these instrcutions, among others: http://www.mail-archive.com/alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net/msg04145.html They did not help either. Any help or ideas about what I could try would really, really be appreciated. Thank you! 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