kyle cronan wrote: > Jjust wondering if someone can enlighten me on an unusual debugging > experience... I use iec958 to output to some speakers that are at a > set volume, so I painstakingly created this asound.conf file to make > things work just right: > ...
Your asound.conf doesn't mention an iec958 output. > I thought I'd never need to fiddle with this asound.conf stuff again. > Then, I upgraded to the 2.6.15 kernel (from 2.6.12). I started > getting really crackly sound with this configuration (at least with > mplayer). Which mplayer version? What output device did you tell mplayer to use? > After much more fiddling and banging my head against the > wall (i've discovered dmix plugins, route plugins, plug plugins, ...), > I eventually discovered that the solution was to delete my asound.conf > file. Arhhrg!! > > What happened here? Does my alsa device driver perhaps now default to > using a softvol-type filter on the iec958 output? Only if your codec doesn't have a master volume control. Which codec does your mainboard have? (see /proc/asound/cards) Regards, Clemens ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
