Hello!

I bought a new Terratec Aureon 7.1 Space last week, because it is said on alsa-project.org that this card would perfectly support ALSA... But after connecting my four analogue speakers (two pairs) to the card, the rear pair did not do anything. I booted into windows (bah...), installed the drivers - all four speakers did what they ought to do. Ok, back to linunx, I tried rotating the pairs, but without success. It seems as if the "rear" analogue output is muted, but I cannot unmute it.

I'm using alsa-drivers 1.0.7rc1, compiled by myself, and set it up as it is described by the docs at alsa-project.org, including the generic .asoundrc Please, help me, I cannot stand those muted speakers...!

Cheers,
Tech

In xmms, xine, and mplayer you have to use ALSA and specify surround40 as the sound device. Next you will have to turn on simulated surround sound.

Ah, first: Thanks for your answer! I was near giving up and sending the card back...

Ok, I started xmms and chose for the output plugin "ALSA lib". Configure brought me to a list of devices, I chose "ICE 1725 Surround PCM (hw0,2)". So far, so good; but xmms wont play a song. Starting it from command line showed this error message:
I think this is because I didnt configure this surround40 device, but I dont know how I looked around on my system and discovered in /usr/share/alsa/pcm the file "surround40.conf", but its full of vars I cannot fill...?

How do I configure the surround40 device?

Thanks in advice!
Tech

The surround40 is just handles the routes. You do not need to config anything for surround40. In XMMS, mplayer, and xine type surround40 in the sound device.

Well, that cannot be... I typed "surround40" in xmms, but it doesnt do a damn thing... Displays an error message (the standard, cannot access sound device blah...) And command line show the message I quoted two posts above