. However, I'm unable to get surround sound (5.1) to work.My front/center speakers work out of the box, but the rear ones are silent. I read that I had to enable Multich in vmix to get it to work, but then I get garbled/crackling sound in everything other than osstest (osstest is garbled too when something else is using sound). I've tried mplayer, flash, and various wine apps, and they work perfectly with channels set to Stereo, but not in Multich.
Here's what I tried:
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[root ~]# ossmix vmix0-channels Multich
Value of mixer control vmix0-channels set to Multich
My motherboard is an Asus a8n32-sli deluxe, and I'm using Arch Linux (64bit), with oss 4.2_2002-2.
Even if I can't get this working, this is a huge improvement over ALSA
. Thanks!Output of ossinfo -v3 and ossmix (without Multich enabled):
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[root ~]# ossinfo -v3
Version info: OSS 4.2 (b 2002/200912291752) (0x00040100) GPL
Platform: Linux/x86_64 2.6.34-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jun 19 00:07:49 CEST 2010 (arch)
Number of audio devices: 2
Number of audio engines: 7
Number of MIDI devices: 0
Number of mixer devices: 1
Device objects
0: osscore0 OSS core services
1: oss_ich0 Nvidia nForce4 interrupts=103989 (103989)
2: oss_usb0 USB audio core services
MIDI devices (/dev/midi*)
Mixer devices
0: ICH AC97 Mixer (ALC850) (Mixer 0 of device object 1)
Device file /dev/oss/oss_ich0/mix0, Legacy device /dev/mixer0
Priority: 10
Caps:
Device handle: PCI812a1043-0000:00:0d.0-mx01
Device priority: 10
Audio devices
Nvidia nForce4 /dev/oss/oss_ich0/pcm0 (device index 0)
Legacy device /dev/dsp0
Caps: DUPLEX TRIGGER MMAP
Modes: IN/OUT
Engine 1: 0/Nvidia nForce4
Available for use
Engine 2: 1/Nvidia nForce4 (vmix)
Available for use
Engine 3: 2/Nvidia nForce4 (vmix)
Available for use
Engine 4: 3/Nvidia nForce4 (vmix)
Available for use
Engine 5: 4/Nvidia nForce4 (vmix)
Available for use
Engine 6: 5/Nvidia nForce4
Available for use
Input formats (0x00000410):
AFMT_S16_LE - 16 bit signed little endian
AFMT_AC3 - AC3 (Dolby Digital) encoded audio
Output formats (0x00000410):
AFMT_S16_LE - 16 bit signed little endian
AFMT_AC3 - AC3 (Dolby Digital) encoded audio
Device handle: PCI812a1043-0000:00:0d.0-au01
Related mixer dev: 0
Sample rate source: 0
Preferred channel configuration: Not indicated
Supported number of channels (min - max): 2 - 6
Native sample rates (min - max): 48000 - 48000
HW Type: Not indicated.
Minimum latency: Not indicated
Nvidia nForce4 S/PDIF out /dev/oss/oss_ich0/spdout (device index 1)
Legacy device /dev/dsp1
Caps: TRIGGER MMAP
Modes: OUTPUT
Out engine 1: 6/Nvidia nForce4 S/PDIF out
Available for use
Input formats (0x00000410):
AFMT_S16_LE - 16 bit signed little endian
AFMT_AC3 - AC3 (Dolby Digital) encoded audio
Output formats (0x00000410):
AFMT_S16_LE - 16 bit signed little endian
AFMT_AC3 - AC3 (Dolby Digital) encoded audio
Device handle: PCI812a1043-0000:00:0d.0-au02
Related mixer dev: 0
Sample rate source: 0
Preferred channel configuration: Not indicated
Supported number of channels (min - max): 2 - 6
Native sample rates (min - max): 48000 - 48000
HW Type: Not indicated.
Minimum latency: Not indicated
Nodes
/dev/dsp -> /dev/oss/oss_ich0/pcm0
/dev/dsp_in -> /dev/oss/oss_ich0/pcm0
/dev/dsp_out -> /dev/oss/oss_ich0/pcm0
/dev/dsp_ac3 -> /dev/oss/oss_ich0/pcm0
/dev/dsp_mmap -> /dev/oss/oss_ich0/pcm0
/dev/dsp_multich -> /dev/oss/oss_ich0/pcm0
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[root ~]# ossmix
Selected mixer 0/ICH AC97 Mixer (ALC850)
Known controls are:
vol [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 75:75)
vol.rec ON|OFF (currently OFF)
pcm [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 75:75)
speaker <monovol> (currently 0)
line [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 0:0)
line.rec ON|OFF (currently ON)
mic <monovol> (currently 0)
mic.rec ON|OFF (currently OFF)
cd [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 75:75)
cd.rec ON|OFF (currently OFF)
igain [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 75:75)
aux1 [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 0:0)
aux1.rec ON|OFF (currently OFF)
phone [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 0:0)
phone.rec ON|OFF (currently OFF)
mono <monovol> (currently 75)
mono.rec ON|OFF (currently OFF)
video [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 0:0)
video.rec ON|OFF (currently OFF)
rear [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 50:50)
center [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 50:50)
micboost ON|OFF (currently OFF)
mixext.centervol [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 50:50)
mixext.rearvol [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 50:50)
mixext.sidevol [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 50:50)
mixext.rear2linejack ON|OFF (currently OFF)
mixext.center2micjack ON|OFF (currently OFF)
mixext.spkmode <FRONT|SPREAD> (currently SPREAD)
mixext.mix-lfe2front ON|OFF (currently OFF)
mixext.mix-rear2front ON|OFF (currently OFF)
spdout.enable ON|OFF (currently ON)
spdout.adc/dac ON|OFF (currently OFF)
spdout.pro <Consumer|Professional> (currently Consumer)
spdout.audio <AUDIO|DATA> (currently AUDIO)
spdout.copy ON|OFF (currently OFF)
spdout.pre-emph ON|OFF (currently OFF)
spdout.rate <48000|44100|32000> (currently 48000)
spdout.vbit ON|OFF (currently OFF)
spdin.enable ON|OFF (currently OFF)
spdin.monitor ON|OFF (currently OFF)
spdin.pro <decimal value> (currently 0) (Read-only)
spdin.audio <decimal value> (currently 0) (Read-only)
spdin.copy <decimal value> (currently 0) (Read-only)
spdin.pre-emph <decimal value> (currently 0) (Read-only)
spdin.mode <decimal value> (currently 0) (Read-only)
spdin.category <decimal value> (currently 0) (Read-only)
spdin.genlevel <decimal value> (currently 0) (Read-only)
spdin.source <decimal value> (currently 0) (Read-only)
spdin.channel <decimal value> (currently 0) (Read-only)
spdin.rate <decimal value> (currently 44100) (Read-only)
spdin.clock <decimal value> (currently 0) (Read-only)
spdin.signal <decimal value> (currently 0) (Read-only)
spdin.vbit <decimal value> (currently 0) (Read-only)
vmix0-enable ON|OFF (currently ON)
vmix0-rate <decimal value> (currently 48000) (Read-only)
vmix0-channels <Stereo|Multich> (currently Stereo)
vmix0-src <Fast|High|OFF> (currently Fast)
vmix0-outvol <monovol> (currently 24.8 dB)
vmix0-invol <monovol> (currently 25.0 dB)
vmix0.pcm1 [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 25.0:25.0 dB)
vmix0.pcm2 [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 25.0:25.0 dB)
vmix0.pcm3 [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 25.0:25.0 dB)
vmix0.pcm4 [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 25.0:25.0 dB)