Re: [Alsa-user] No sound with Realtek ALC3226

2014-10-29 Thread John Frankish
The answer is that the headphones need to be muted before the speakers will work. Having the headphones as default does not seem to make sense... -Original Message- From: John Frankish [mailto:john.frank...@outlook.com] Sent: Thursday, 23 October, 2014 09:59 To: alsa-user@lists.sourcefor

Re: [Alsa-user] Recommendation for a well-supported multichannel audio card

2014-10-29 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Schmidt, Christian Thorge wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Clemens Ladisch wrote: >> There is no other chip with this silly design. > > Just out of curiosity: Why is this silly? A single device that can stream multichannel data is much easier to design, implement, and test than a bunch of

Re: [Alsa-user] Amplifier modes on Asus Xonar DGX

2014-10-29 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Janusz Slowinski wrote: > On 28 October 2014 12:31 Clemens Ladisch wrote: >> Janusz Slowinski wrote: >>> BTW Are the gain modes just predefined equalizer settings in amplifier >>> or is it some hardware magic? >> >> This is neither an equalizer nor some hardware magic. >> The setting just adds a f

Re: [Alsa-user] Recommendation for a well-supported multichannel audio card

2014-10-29 Thread Schmidt, Christian Thorge
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > There is no other chip with this silly design. Just out of curiosity: Why is this silly? > If you want to play multiple streams through one multichannel card, > you have to merge them in software (i.e., use virtual devices based > on dmix

Re: [Alsa-user] Asus Xonar DX and DSX

2014-10-29 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Marek Kowalski wrote: > I found in docs of Xonar DX and DSX that even though it's not marketed, > these cards have headphone amplifier. And they have older drivers than > DGX, so one simple question: does ALSA support both headphone amplifier > and microphone pre-amplifier on DX and DSX? Yes. > o