[alsa-devel] Alsa Issue - Sound playback starts on left speaker only
stan
ghjeold_i_mwee at cox.net
Tue Jun 24 10:25:11 CEST 2008
Ashwin.Chandra at corel.com wrote:
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> Hello,
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> I am having an issue with my playback application where upon playback
> start, only the left speaker is outputted. But if I mute and unmute
> (either through my application or using alsamixer), the sound playback
> resumes on both left and right speakers. This only happens on a
> particular system too (out of 5 systems). But I know it is my issue
> because mplayer or smplayer works fine.
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> I believe I am setting the correct HW params (ie. 2 channels), etc.
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> Any ideas?
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> Thanks!
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The ICE1724 driver has exactly this behavior. It is a known bug and has
been there for years.
You don't say what chip is having the problem, but I would guess that
this is it. Most people
just program a script to adjust the volume at startup to cure it.
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