Thanks to all who responded. I have played w/ various mixers some, but I don't remember the "Wave Sur" setting. You're right - there are so many settings that I don't have a clue about! :) I'll check it out tonight though. BTW - I got the file w/ your first reply...?? Thanks again, Mike ------------------------------------------ Cleary_Mike@emc.com ------------------------------------------ "A wink is as good as a nod to a blind horse.: - anon -----Original Message----- From: Jesse Marlin [mailto:jlm@compgen.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 10:26 AM To: Cleary_Mike@emc.com Cc: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] How to get 4 speakers working ? 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. :(