The January 2005 issue of Sound on Sound features a review of Juli@ by Martin Walker: 'ESI's Juli@ is a versatile soundcard thanks to its swappable I/O and extensive driver support, it sounds good, and is good value for money.' - check the full review here. Right-click your audio driver. For most computers, this will be 'Realtek (R) Audio'. If you are using a third-party sound card, you may have a different sound card. This displays a pop-up menu to the right of the driver. Products certified by the Federal Communications Commission and Industry Canada will be distributed in the United States and Canada. Please visit the ASUS USA and ASUS Canada websites for information about locally available products. The alsa drivers have native sound-devices in the /dev/snd/ directory. If you have one card you might see the following devices: /dev/snd/pcmC0D0 - the raw audio device for the card /dev/snd/mixerC0D0 - the mixer for card 0 /dev/snd/controlC0D0 - the control device for card 0. Sound Issue in Windows 10 with Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium in Drivers and Hardware Hello - After I upgraded to Windows 10 from 7 Pro, there was no sound. Obviously, Creative Labs has yet to release compatible drivers for many of their sound cards.
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6. Testing and using
Now you should test if the sound driver really is available, then try touse it.
6.1 The /proc filesystem
You can find a lot of useful information about your system in the /proc subdirectory. /proc isa 'virtual' filesystem, meaning that it does not exist in real life, but merely is a mapping tovarious processes and tasks in your computer. In order for /proc to work, you need to have supportfor it compiled into your kernel. Most linux distributions have this as a default, but if youcompiled a kernel and left /proc out obviously there won't be anything in /proc.
/proc/modules gives information about loaded modules. Once the ALSA sounddrivers are loaded, if you type cat /proc/modules you should seesomething like:
If something went wrong during the installation of the driver, you willstill see a couple of 'snd' devices, but there won't be sound support.For example (Note: you should never issue this command as follows, the cs4236 driver needs options):
You can check the existence of a soundcard by looking in /proc/asound/cards.For example:In the previous example (where I forgot the options) the output would havebeen:A working CS4236 card would produceIf you checked and doublechecked your settings and still see no sound card,take a look at the troubleshooting section.The /proc/asound/ virtual directory shows lots of other informationabout the driver. Please note that /proc/asound/ will only exist after you inserted the first ALSA module. If there is no /proc/asound, it simply means that the 'snd'module was not loaded properly. You can find installed cards in /proc/asound/cards, thenfind information about card0 in /proc/asound/0, /proc/asound/1 for card1etcetera.
If cat /proc/asound/card1/pcm0 shows something like
For users of a 2.0.x kernel there is a third method to find information about the sound devices, namely if you insertedthe OSS compatible driver there is a /dev/sndstat device. The ALSA drivers kindly requestthat younot to rely on this information as it is only there for compatibility with the OSS driversand better information can easily be obtained from /proc/asound/. In kernel 2.2.x ALSA usesthe kernel soundcore and therefor cannot emulate /dev/sndstat, since it would interferewith the OSS drivers.
6.2 The mixer
Once the drivers for your sound card have been installed and your /procfilesystem tells you so, you can try to make a real sound. To do this, youneed to set the mixer volumes to a reasonable value. You need the ``amixer'from the alsa-utils package for this. First of all,install the utility package, or at least put the 'amixer' command in somereasonable place (like /usr/local/bin).
Version 0.3.2 andlater have an interface that differs from the OSS drivers. If you type just ``amixer'you will see the mixer elements and their value. One of these elementscould be ``Master volume' for example, and could look like:
Unfortunately, I do not know how to set left and right volumes independently. With amixer,you can change volumes with the ``amixer set' command. For example, to change the Mastervolume, you would issue a
Please note that the names of the elements can be different for different types of sound cards. Also notethat amixer is case dependent, so ``amixer set masteR 10' will not work.For more information, please look in the amixer man page.
If you have a 0.3.0-pre4 ALSA, then amixer works just like normal mixer programs.You can look at the mixer settingsby typing ``amixer'. This command lists the ``mixer settings', or as you wouldnormally call it, the volume settings of the various parts of the soundcard. The output from amixer can greatly differ from cardto card. My Soundblaster 16 shows:
If you only get a message like ``amixer: Specify command..', then you are usingthe ALSA 3.2 utilities. I suggest you to upgrade to 0.4.1e or later, or to go back to0.3.0-pre4.
Mixer settings for playing
You have noticed the 'Mute' entry for some devices. This means that this particulardevice will be zeroed out, whatever volume setting you use. Some cards (the CS4237B in the example) even mute their master channel.So, for the CS4237B, I would have to type
amixer set 'Master d' unmute
to even be able to produce any sound at all. The Soundblaster does nothave muted output, but
amixer set Master 100 unmute
would set thevolume to 100% - and unmute it if it would have been muted.You can use a number, a word like'mute' or 'unmute', or both. Type
amixer set 'Master d' 100; amixer set PCM 100 unmute
to set the CS4237B card to maximum master volume and unmute PCM volume and set it to maximum.
If you use an older version of amixer, you need to leave out the ``set' part of the command, so you wouldjust type
amixer 'master d' 100
Mixer parts
The various mixer parts may confuse you if you have no knowledge of digital soundproduction. The sound-HOWTO may help a bit, but a very short introduction is here.
You will probably only need few mixer elements: one of them is the ``CD' setting (this is analog sound of your CD player, most CD players are connectedwith a 3 or 4 wire red/white/black cable).
The ``PCM' setting is used for most applications. Programs like mpg123, xmms, speakfreely, realplayer and most others use the PCM channel.
``MIC' stands formicrophone, ``line-in' is an (optional) extra input at the back of your sound card.
The various ``gain' parts offer extra amplification for various uses and are prettyself-explanatory. (Like: record-gain is extra amplification for the recording channel, whichcan be useful if you use a microphone).
Mixer settings for recording
Razer mice & touchpads driver download for windows xp. You would set the CD channel to record by typing
amixer set CD capture
and stop the recording setting again by typing
amixer set CD nocapture.
Note that older amixer programs use ``amixer CD rec' and ``amixer CD norec' for this.
If you would like to record something from the microphone, you would probablyuse
amixer set 'Input Gain' 100; amixer set Mic 100 capture mute.
(Using themicrophone input unmuted will produce loud high-pitched sound if your micpicks up its own signal from the speakers again). Most microphones have a ``gain' setting to boost the microphone volume; you are most likely goingto need it to pick up any sound from the microphone at all.
Again, older amixer programs use ``amixer 'input gain' 100; amixer mic 100 rec mute'.
Other mixer settings
Unfortunately I have not been able to change the volume of the '3dcenter' and '3d space' settings with amixer 0.3.0-pre4. I haven't tried yet with 0.4.1e (this particular machineis still running 2.0.38). If anyone succeeds pleaselet me know. I can use alsamixer for this job, but alsamixer was not ported to the 0.4.1e version yet.
The ALSA FAQ says that it is possible to restore mixer settings withcat <file> > /proc/asound/#/mixerC0D0, where <file> was obtained from/proc/asound/#/mixerC0D0. I have not been able to reproduce this as my systemcomplains about non-existing devices. Then there is the ``alsactl' program, which I don't use. I invite you (yes, you!)to write this section.
6.3 The /dev/snd/ devices
The alsa drivers have native sound-devices in the /dev/snd/ directory.If you have one card you might see the following devices:
The first number means the number of the soundcard, the second number (ifany) is the number of the device. A sound card with two PCM devices wouldhave a pcmC0D0 and pcmC0D1 device.Please note: the ALSA devices have changed between the previous version. Older ALSA drivers use /dev/snd/pcm00 (first number is the card, second number is the device).If this HOWTO uses the older notation, please drop me a line so I can correct it.Now you are ready to put any soundfile you want into the PCM deviceof the first card. So try to cat any textfile (any file) to /dev/snd/pcmC0D0,like this: cat <filename> > /dev/snd/pcmC0D0. The filename canbe any file, as long as it has some length. If you have a soundfile lyingaround somewhere, you could try that. You could also get the file at http://www.ldp.org/sounds/english.authis is Linus Torvalds saying how to pronounce Linux.
The default setting of your sound device is 8000 Hz, 8 bit. That means thatthe 'english.au' file mentioned above will produce speech,other test files will probably just produce noise. If you do not hear anything,check your speakers, try to run 'amixer' again or consult a doctor.(Later on you can easily use the full 48 KHz, 16 bit features of your sound card, by usingyour favourite sound player like sox or mpg123).
If you loaded the ``snd-pcm1-oss' module, you can also use the OSS-compatibilityto access your sound card. The following mappings are made:
You probaly want to use the ``snd-mixer-oss' module as wel, so you can use the backwards compatible mixer.
6.4 Additional information
The INSTALL file in the ALSA driver directory mentions some tricks to tellthe driver which settings to use. If you need these commands it will depend on the application youuse to play sound. Regular sound playing applications, like mpg123, sox (mostly called with the ``play' command), or X11 applications like RealPlayer will probablydo fine without these. I never used these anyway.
/proc/asound/#/pcm#0
<app_name> - name of application with (highter priority) or without path
<fragments> - number of fragments or zero if auto
<fragment_size> - size of fragment in bytes or zero if auto
<options> - optional parameters
WR_ONLY - if application tries open pcm device with O_RDWR driver rewrites this to O_WRONLY (playback) - good for Quake etc..
Examples:
/proc/asound/#card#/sb16
Example: echo 'Record 16' > /proc/asound/0/sb16
For further reference, please consult the INSTALL file.
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Germany's stereoplay issue July 2006 contains a review of Juli@ in the HiFi & PC section: 'In conclusion, Juli@ comes very close to the analog standard of vividness, image and warmth.' - verdict: stereoplay Highlight |
The January 2005 issue of Sound on Sound features a review of Juli@ by Martin Walker: 'ESI's Juli@ is a versatile soundcard thanks to its swappable I/O and extensive driver support, it sounds good, and is good value for money.' - check the full review here. |
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