[linux-audio-user] Terratec PHASE 28

[conrad berhörster]

High Petar, 
you should update to ALSA 1.0.10. that helped me. 
can you record with your card? 
you can send me the complete amixer output offlist , if you want to.

sizu c~ 

Am Donnerstag 10 November 2005 14:29 schrieb Petar Nedyalkov:
> Hello list,
>
> I've successfully installed ALSA on my server, having two Terratec PHASE 28
> cards. The problem is that from all 8 sound outs, the mixer recognises as
> stereo pairs only four.
>
> The `amixer -c 0` output is as follows:
>
> Simple mixer control 'Master',0
>   Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
>   Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
>   Limits: Playback 0 - 255
>   Front Left: Playback 255 [100%] [on]
>   Front Right: Playback 255 [100%] [on]
> Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
>   Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
>   Playback channels: Mono
>   Limits: Playback 0 - 128
>   Mono: Playback 128 [100%] [on]
> Simple mixer control 'Front',0
>   Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
>   Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
>   Limits: Playback 0 - 127
>   Front Left: Playback 127 [100%] [on]
>   Front Right: Playback 127 [100%] [on]
> Simple mixer control 'Center',0
>   Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
>   Playback channels: Mono
>   Limits: Playback 0 - 127
>   Mono: Playback 127 [100%] [on]
> Simple mixer control 'LFE',0
>   Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
>   Playback channels: Mono
>   Limits: Playback 0 - 127
>   Mono: Playback 127 [100%] [on]
> Simple mixer control 'Side',0
>   Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
>   Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
>   Limits: Playback 0 - 127
>   Front Left: Playback 127 [100%] [on]
>   Front Right: Playback 127 [100%] [on]
>
> As you can see, the mixer controls Side and Front are stereo (i.e. have two
> channels), but the mixer controls Center and LFE are mono.
>
> The same goes to my second Terratec PHASE 28 card.
>
> Unfortunately, I had installed the same versions of ALSA and the channels
> were OK. But after I reinstalled my server - the Center and LFE stereo
> channels became mono.
>
> I'm using ALSA drivers 1.0.9, ALSA utils 1.0.9 and ALSA lib 1.0.9.
>
> Has anyone solved this problem? I need 4 stereo channels but not 2 stereo
> and 2 mono.