Bug 237298 - ALSA - No sound from rear speakers ICE1724 M-AUDIO REVOLUTION 5
Summary: ALSA - No sound from rear speakers ICE1724 M-AUDIO REVOLUTION 5
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: alsa-lib
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Martin Stransky
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-04-20 17:37 UTC by Gerald Cox
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:12 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-05-09 11:55:49 UTC
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Description Gerald Cox 2007-04-20 17:37:24 UTC
Description of problem:
I have a M-AUDIO Revolution 5 sound card which has the ICE1724 chipset.
When I open the Gnome Volume applet it correctly identifies the card as 
M Audio Revolution5-1 (Alsa Mixer).  The PCM slider control is for the front
speakers, the PCM Rear slider is for the Rear speakers.  I get no sound from the
Rear speakers.  There is no mechanism within the controls to duplicate front
sound to the rear speakers as is done with other sound cards.  I did some
searching and found:  http://alsa.opensrc.org/Ice1724
which says "With the newest 2.6.9 kernel for the first time even the Center,
LFE, Front and Rear channels work as expected - thanks to the developers ;)"
that doesn't appear to be the case.  I then found this posting:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=2387139&postcount=25 which explains how
to create a ".asoundrc" file to allow one to get sound from the rear speakers.
Shouldn't this be enabled by default?  Is this a bug or a feature?


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
alsa-lib-1.0.14-0.4.rc3.fc7
alsa-utils-1.0.14-0.4.rc2.fc7
alsa-lib-1.0.14-0.4.rc3.fc7
alsa-tools-1.0.12-4.fc7


How reproducible:
Use GNOME applet to try to get sound from rear speaker.


Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Open GNOME applet to adjust speaker sound.
2.  Try to adjust rear speaker volume.

  
Actual results:
No sound from rear speakers.

Expected results:
Sound from rear speakers.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Martin Stransky 2007-05-09 11:55:49 UTC
Yes, this configuration can be added to /etc/alsa/cards/*.conf. But please
report it to upstream (www.alsa-project.org). They're authors of ALSA (linux
sound system) and this change should be made for all distros. I'm not going to
add it to Fedora only.


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