This is more a remainder for me: in order to make the surround work for mp3s with the CA0106 driver with alsa (for me it’s a Sound Blaster Live! 24 bit), here’s the .asoundrc that should be used:
pcm.!dmix {
type plug
slave {
pcm surround51
channels 6
}
}
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmix"
slave.channels 6
route_policy duplicate
}
Does this allow multiple sounds to play sounds for you? This sorted out my issues, but if I am playing music in Amarok or Banshee it comes out with surround, but I can’t get notifications out of Kopete\pidgin etc.
Yes, it works correctly for me (currently using 2.6.26).
Alright, thanks anyway. Your post helped a lot. It’s nice to have surround sound with basic stuff now. I’d rather have that over sound in kopete anyway, I suppose. I don’t know - maybe it’s Pulse, OpenSuSE or the kernel version.
Thanks again.
Tutorial how to enable surround sound and dmix with ca0106 cards:
http://newinubuntu.blogspot.com/2010/08/dzwiek-51-i-dmix-na-kartach-z-chipsetem.html