sblive 5.1 in linux with 5.1 surround speakers.

[leech]

Anyone know how to get the 5.1 speakers to work fully in linux (or if there is even a way with the current drivers). I have the creative Inspire 5.2 5300 speaker set, but no sound comes out of my center speaker. Other than that they sound great. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Leech

[Zao]

I have a related problem.

I do not get any output through the SPDIF connector on my Live 5.1 in Linux.

Is there a simple thing I've missed?

[Ribbit]

I'm not an SB user and I don't know which drivers you're using, but look up the ALSA drivers at http://www.alsa-project.org and try to get them to work. They give you much more control over the card than the standard kernel drivers, and there are other advantages as well. They're tricky to get running properly, though.

[Zao]

I'll try them out later...

Need to repair my Slackware install first, recompiled my kernel and forgot to dump my bootsector to WinXP's bootloader, so it won't start.

[Wombat]

The last time I really looked in to this, Creative's stance was that they couldn't legally do 5.1. That's a Dolby technology, and Dolby made the Open Source drivers remove the code needed to handle their algorithms. Greedy wankers.

[runderwo]

I'm not so sure about that. liba52 for example is a DD 5.1 encoding/decoding library. (used to be libac3)

There may have been other reasons...

[leech]

I was thinking that very thing earlier today. There are opensourced codecs for it. Guess I'll have to do more digging. Currently I'm using Alsa 9.0rc2 (it's what comes installed by default on Mandrake 9.0) the only problem is that I can hear more static than I used to. Odd, I'd say.

Leech