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30th April 2005, 03:11 PM
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Sound blaster Audigy2 & 6.1 speakers
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I'm using fc3, and i have a sb Audigy2. It was configured automatically by fedora and it works great. I have a 6.1 speaker set from creative. How can i enable them?? I only hear sound from 2 speakers!
thanks!!
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2nd May 2005, 01:02 AM
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Same issue here on my desktop system. I did check the Creative website and they do not support my Audigy2 ZS Gamer edition with Linux drivers for my 7.1 system  , so I am guessing my 7.1 system will stay 2.1 for now while I am using FC3. Dual booting, so if I really want to "kick it" in hi-gear, I just boot back into WinXP Pro.
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2nd May 2005, 02:52 AM
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what about alsa? doesn't it support 5.1, 6.1 or 7,1 speakers?
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2nd May 2005, 09:10 AM
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Alsa supports your sound card, but I don't know if it supports 7.1 sound. I'm thinking of buying a 7.1 card too (SB live), so I'm going to google now. 
For more info, see the creative page on the alsa site
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2nd May 2005, 09:58 AM
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Originally Posted by kfaday
what about alsa? doesn't it support 5.1, 6.1 or 7,1 speakers?
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According to this article alsa supports surround sound and 5.1 and 7.1 speakers, so I think I will get myself a SB Live 7.1 card 
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2nd May 2005, 11:58 AM
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Nice info there bitrain. Thanks. Will check it out this evening.
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3rd May 2005, 04:12 PM
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Yea try installing ALSA drivers from the ALSA web site. Also, make sure your surround sound is turned on in the volume control. For some reason, ever since I upgraded my kernel my surround and center sound are muted whenever I reboot my computer.
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18th June 2005, 10:28 AM
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alsa supports surround sound, you have to edit your .asoundrc file for it, another option is to use the advanced options in your sound system config and put in -Dplug:surround71 ( for 7.1 surround sound, for other options look at the alsa help files. )
you can use
/usr/bin/speaker-test -Dplug:surround71 -c8
/usr/bin/speaker-test -Dplug:surround51 -c6
to test if your speakers are set correctely. ( need to have alsa-utils installed for that though. ) If you plan to buy a creative live 7.1 24 bit soundcard check out my thread with that name, you need to compile your own alsa driver from the newest source. There is a howto on the alsa page for that just look up the card in the sound matrix and click on the module name to get to it ( ca0106 )
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