7.1 Speaker Sound Problem

Hi

I'm having a problem getting sound from the 7.1 speakers on a soundcard, I can only get sound from the two front speakers. I'm fairly new to debugging sound problems and I've tried evry how-to I could find.

I'm currently running openSUSE 10.3 on a Dell Dimension 8400 with the onboard sound disabled in the BIOS and a Terratec Aureon 7.1 Space sound card installed. This is a dual boot system and the speakers work fine under Windows XP.

The sound card was sharing an IRQ with a USB device so I disabl;ed USB in the BIOS and also tried pci=routeirq boot option and the details below are with that configuration. I've tried to gather as much information I can so here it is:

dmesg output - pastebin.ca/917735

lspci -vv output - pastebin.ca/917873

lsmod | grep snd
snd_seq_dummy 7812 2
snd_pcm_oss 50560 0
snd_mixer_oss 20352 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq 55348 1 snd_seq_dummy
snd_ice1724 86896 1
snd_ice17xx_ak4xxx 8448 1 snd_ice1724
snd_ac97_codec 97828 1 snd_ice1724
ac97_bus 6272 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_ak4114 14080 1 snd_ice1724
snd_pcm 81028 4 snd_pcm_oss,snd_ice1724,snd_ac97_codec,snd_ak4114
snd_timer 26756 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 14472 1 snd_pcm
snd_pt2258 8448 1 snd_ice1724
snd_i2c 9728 2 snd_ice1724,snd_pt2258
snd_ak4xxx_adda 12032 2 snd_ice1724,snd_ice17xx_ak4xxx
snd_mpu401_uart 12416 1 snd_ice1724
snd_rawmidi 28288 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 12044 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
snd 63932 18 snd_seq_dummy,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq,sn d_ice1724,snd_ice17xx_ak4xxx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_ak 4114,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_pt2258,snd_i2c,snd_ak4x xx_adda,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore 11460 1 snd

modinfo snd-ice1724

filename: /lib/modules/2.6.22.17-0.1-default/updates/alsa/pci/ice1712/snd-ice1724.ko
license: GPL
description: VIA ICEnsemble ICE1724/1720 (Envy24HT/PT)
author: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
srcversion: FD030CAF37BE0EA3AF766C7
alias: pci:v00001412d00001724sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
depends: snd,snd-ac97-codec,snd-pcm,snd-i2c,snd,snd-mpu401-uart,snd-ice17xx-ak4xxx,snd-pt2258,snd-ak4xxx-adda,snd-ak4114
vermagic: 2.6.22.17-0.1-default SMP mod_unload 586
parm: index:Index value for ICE1724 soundcard. (array of int)
parm: id:ID string for ICE1724 soundcard. (array of charp)
parm: enable:Enable ICE1724 soundcard. (array of bool)
parm: model:Use the given board model. (array of charp)

rpm -q alsa alsa-utils alsa-firmware
alsa-1.0.16.hg20080219-1.1
alsa-utils-1.0.16.hg20080212-1.3
alsa-firmware-1.0.16.hg20080206-1.1



cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.16.
Compiled on Feb 21 2008 for kernel 2.6.22.17-0.1-default (SMP).



cat /proc/asound/modules
0 snd_ice1724


cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [T71Space ]: Aureon71 - Terratec Aureon 7.1-Space
Terratec Aureon 7.1-Space at 0xcc20, irq 19


alsa-info.sh - pastebin.ca/917449

talsa.sh - pastebin.ca/917728


cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound

options snd-ice1724 enable=1 index=0 model=aureon71
# i_aO.vgtLKUWGtyD:Aureon 7.1 Space
alias snd-card-0 snd-ice1724


cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU1
0: 133 0 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 34 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042
6: 5 0 IO-APIC-edge floppy
7: 0 0 IO-APIC-edge parport0
8: 12 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc
9: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi
12: 103 167 IO-APIC-edge i8042
14: 19843 74940 IO-APIC-edge libata
15: 0 0 IO-APIC-edge libata
16: 601174 157128 IO-APIC-fasteoi radeon@pci:0000:01:00.0
17: 60 80717 IO-APIC-fasteoi eth0
18: 31731 16847 IO-APIC-fasteoi ahci
19: 1364 373 IO-APIC-fasteoi ICE1724
NMI: 0 0
LOC: 579682 559315
ERR: 0
MIS: 0

This is with the alsa repositories and the latest alsa installed.

Can anyone give me some pointers as to what I can do to further diagnose this problem? If there's anything missing from that info please let me know.

Thanks in advance.

Bill

If you get no help/luck here on our forum, you could install 'xchat' and then with 'xchat' log on to "freenode" and irc-channel #alsa, and ask the sound guru's on irc #alsa for help. That is where I typically go to obtain more information on the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA).

If you get no help/luck here on our forum, you could install 'xchat' and then with 'xchat' log on to "freenode" and irc-channel #alsa, and ask the sound guru's on irc #alsa for help. That is where I typically go to obtain more information on the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA).
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OK, thanks. I'll give that a go in a day or two.