Nforce 4 MSI motherboard integrated sound----since my Creative X-Fi isn't supported, YET

can not get the front center speaker to work.

jlt:/home/steven# aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: CK804 [NVidia CK804], device 0: Intel ICH [NVidia CK804] Subdevices: 0/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: CK804 [NVidia CK804], device 2: Intel ICH - IEC958 [NVidia CK804 - IEC958] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Here is my present asound.conf file that I created in /etc for my Debian etch 4.0----amd64 system X2-4200-cpu

# Set default sound card # Useful so that all settings can be changed to a different card here. pcm.snd_card { type hw card 0 }

pcm.dmix6 { type dmix ipc_key 1024 ipc_key_add_uid false # let multiple users share ipc_perm 0660 # IPC permissions (octal, default 0600) slave { pcm snd_card # see below rate 48000 channels 6 period_time 0 period_size 1024 buffer_time 0 buffer_size 4096 } }

#route for stereo only pcm.dmix20 { type route slave.pcm "dmix6" slave.channels 6 ttable.0.0 1 ttable.1.1 1 }

#route for stereo sound+center+subwoofer pcm.ch31dup { type route slave.pcm "dmix6" slave.channels 6 ttable.0.0 1 ttable.1.1 1 ttable.0.4 0.5 ttable.1.4 0.5 ttable.0.5 0.5 ttable.1.5 0.5 }

pcm.ch51dup { type route slave.pcm dmix6 slave.channels 6 ttable.0.0 1 ttable.1.1 1 ttable.0.2 1 ttable.1.3 1 ttable.0.4 0.5 ttable.1.4 0.5 ttable.0.5 0.5 ttable.1.5 0.5 }

pcm.duplex { type asym playback.pcm "ch51dup" # playback.pcm "dmix2" # capture.pcm "mydsnoop" capture.pcm "snd_card" }

################### # CONVERSION PLUG # ################### # Setting the default pcm device allows the conversion # rate to be selected on the fly. # duplex mode allows any alsa enabled app to read/write # to the dmix plug (Fixes a problem with wine). pcm.!default { type plug slave.pcm "duplex" }

pcm.dsp "duplex"

pcm.dsp1 "duplex"

pcm.fr { type route slave.pcm "dmix6" slave.channels 6 ttable.0.0 1 ttable.1.1 1 }

pcm.rr { type route slave.pcm "dmix6" slave.channels 6 ttable.0.2 1 ttable.1.3 1 }

pcm.lfe { type route slave.pcm "dmix6" slave.channels 6 ttable.0.4 1 ttable.1.5 1 }

Here is my back up with other configurations for the file that created the same 4 speakers and subwoofer sounds but no front center speaker sounds

pcm.ch51dup { type route slave.pcm dmix6 slave.channels 6 ttable.0.0 1 ttable.1.1 1 ttable.0.2 1 ttable.1.3 1 ttable.0.4 1 ttable.1.4 1 ttable.0.5 1 ttable.1.5 1 } ########Old Setup # pcm.51to40 # { # type route # slave.pcm surround51 # slave.channels 6 # # # Front and rear, at 75% of original signal strength # ttable.0.0 0.75 # ttable.1.1 0.75 # ttable.2.2 0.75 # ttable.3.3 0.75 # # Center channel routing (routed to front-left and front-right), # 6dB gaindrop (gain half of main channels) per channel # ttable.4.0 0.375 # ttable.4.1 0.375

# LFE channel routing (routed to front-left and front-right), # 6dB gaindrop (gain half of main channels) per channel # ttable.5.0 0.375 # ttable.5.1 0.375 # }

When I changed a setting from Autodetect to ALSA I could not get any sound--so I compiled everything from source with the latests tars and still nothing, and once I turned the Autodetect in Multimedia Systems Selector<Preferences<Desktop for the Default output plugin, I still had no sound in my center front speaker.

Whew.

I'd love it for my Creative X-Fi card to be supported, but right now, I really like my front center speaker back. I'm at the end of my list of possible fixes, maybe someone who understands can take a look at this an have a go

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