Rear Speakers Not Working

[Tacticus]

Does anyone know how to make the rear speakers work on red hat 8.0? I am using soundblaster live and I have sound but only on the front..

thanks

[mdwatts]

Anything in the sound mixer (i.e. kmix) to adjust the rear channel?

You may need to download, compile and install the SB Live drivers from http://opensource.creative.com to enable the rear speakers.

Anyone else have the rear speakers working with the SB Live?

[ScRapZ_1]

Theres a second option you need to specify when changing volume. The front speakers are considerd the main 'volume' and the rear are 'ogain' or 'output gain'. Most GUI volume mixers should have that listed. If you prefer the CLI then you can make a small script that makes life a bit easier. Aumix is a good, basic mixer which I use in the following script:


#!/bin/bash

if [ -z "$1" ] ; then
aumix -q
exit 0
fi

if [ $1 == "mute" ] ; then
~/bin/logitechctl mute
exit 0
fi

aumix -v$1 -o$1


...save it to /usr/bin/vol (as root) and make it executable...

...so I type vol 70 and it puts both rear and front speakers up to 70% - dont mind that mute bit, thats something more specialized for my keyboard, but you can make it change the volume to 0 instead of muting it.

TTFN,
Scrapz :p

[TonyB]

my .02

I downloaded the emu10k1 drivers + emu-tools. WARNING: These are for kernel 2.4.7+ for emu10k1, and 2.4.11 for emu-tools. I ALMOST installed these, and that would have been a mistake. I use kernel 2.4.3!!!