Cleary_Mike@emc.com writes:
I have a SoundBlaster Live! card which SuSE 8.0 detected
configured w/ no problems. In general, sound seems to work
just fine. But I can only get sound out of 2 speakers (I have 4).
This problem has plagued me for a long time and I'd really
like to get it licked. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
I had a lot of problems with this myself, but finally got it working with alsa-0.9.x. One of the problems is a lot of the volumes are muted by default. Other are so low you cannot hear them. If you bring up alsamixer you will see a pantload of settings. Use the right arrow to move across until you see the setting "Wave Sur". I found this setting adjusts the volume of the rear speakers. If it is muted then unmute it with I think "m". And use the up/down arrows to adjust the volume. If things still are not working, then all I can suggest is to try my /etc/asound.state file. Backup yours and replace it with this one, and see if that at least gets it going. Make sure you are using alsa-0.9.x series as things have changed a lot from alsa-0.5.x. Try this to verify the version:
cat /proc/asound/version Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 0.9.0beta10. Compiled on Apr 7 2002 for kernel 2.4.18
I would have included the file but the lists.suse.com doesn't accept emails > 30000 bytes. :(