On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:54 PM, hype<email address hidden> wrote:
> And by the way, the only way to get it working is to go through alsamixer, which is a "old" ncurse cli application, to unmute the proper channel.
You could use, e.g., gnome-alsamixer.
> I think ideally, this should be working straight away. (as it did in previous versions)
Sure, I understand the pain. No one wins. I suggest smacking Creative
with a trout.
> Is there at least a workaround to not have to systematically by hand
> navigate through the 15 channels present in alsamixer to find the IEC598
> channel and unmute it?
Do you mean IEC958 or IEC958 Optical Raw? They are very (i.e.,
significantly) different mixer elements with very (i.e.,
significantly) different semantics.
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:54 PM, hype<email address hidden> wrote:
> And by the way, the only way to get it working is to go through alsamixer, which is a "old" ncurse cli application, to unmute the proper channel.
You could use, e.g., gnome-alsamixer.
> I think ideally, this should be working straight away. (as it did in previous versions)
Sure, I understand the pain. No one wins. I suggest smacking Creative
with a trout.
> Is there at least a workaround to not have to systematically by hand
> navigate through the 15 channels present in alsamixer to find the IEC598
> channel and unmute it?
Do you mean IEC958 or IEC958 Optical Raw? They are very (i.e.,
significantly) different mixer elements with very (i.e.,
significantly) different semantics.