I have a SBLive 5.1 with surround sound speakers but it seems that only the front 2 speakers work... and the center unit... I have turned the volume up on everything... I do know that there is somethign wrong with my alsa drivers so everything is muted on boot... Kernel if you care is 2.4.26

bash-2.05b$ /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0648 (rev
03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS 530 Virtual PCI-to-PCI
bridge (AGP)
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0963 (rev 2
5)
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7001 USB Controller
(rev 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7001 USB Controller
(rev 0f)
00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7002 USB 2.0
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 10/100 Ethe
rnet (rev 91)
00:08.0 Modem: PCTel Inc HSP MicroModem 56 (rev 02)
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139
C+ (rev 10)
00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 0a)
00:0a.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 0a)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5961 (re
v 01)
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5941 (rev 01)

Your ALSA volume levels are muted because that is the default. If you want to have them saved you have to run alsactl store during shutdown and an alsactl restore during boot up.

For you 2.1 problem, have you tried messing with the 3D settings in alsamixer?

Yes... I turned on 3D and the treble rised for the front speakers but still the rear speakers were off

There are three 3D controls: One switch, and two sliders. Did you mute/unmute the switch and test the whole range of both sliders? I've read somewhere that there's a control called "Wave Sur" in alsamixer which may be what you need.

I turned everything up and still nothing from them

How did you install ALSA?

swaret

What are the contents of your /etc/modules.conf (or modprobe.conf for 2.6 kernels) and your /etc/asound.conf (and/or ~/.asoundrc)?

modules.conf = nothing
modprobe.conf = nothing

No file named asound.conf and .asoundrc

are you using analog out? if so you should MUTE (yes, mute) the SBlive (digital output) control, which usually is not by default. I have searched everywhere trying to get my rear channels to work until i figured it out on my own months later...worth a try

You mean you have nothing in the modules/modprobe.conf files? Well It's a good idea to have something in there. The ALSA page for your card has some recommendations you may want to look at - for both your modules.conf and you asound.conf. They may not help with you surround sound problem but they can't hurt.

I read the site... and I understood what each of those were saying... but my question is... is there anyone out there that might beable to help me with this.. or a file I can run that will configure it all based on what I have.. thank you in advanced...