Audio loopback in linux kernel?

Richard Coffey richardc at cs.utah.edu
Thu Apr 6 21:38:38 CDT 2000


Along this same vein, I want to do the upgrade to the Sound Blaster Live
Platinum or the Turtle Beach Montego II Quadzilla that we purchased.  Any
caveats on either of these free linux drivers?

Richard C.

"Karen D. Camarda" wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Robert Olson wrote:
>
> > If you're running the OSS drivers, the /usr/local/ag/bin/setup-mixer
> > script  will turn off that loopback.
> >
> > The up-and-coming ALSA rat will also take care of this correctly.
> >
> > --bob
> >
>
> OK, so we got the Sound Blaster PCI/128 card, and the demo version of the
> OSS drivers. For PCI cards, the configuration program for the drivers
> (soundconfig) will only allow the card to be auto-detected, as opposed to
> selected from a list. It decides that our card is a "Sound Blaster PCI /
> Ensoniq Audio PCI97 (ES1371/ES1373)".
>
> The problem is that we are still getting the loopback, and the mute*
> variables that setup-mixer tries to alter are not there. (I can't send the
> output of ossmix right now, but I've looked at it and they're not
> there.) One of the README files that came with the drivers implies that
> they ought to be there, but they're not. Any ideas or comments?
>
> Thanks,
> Karen Camarda




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