semi-pro PCI snd crd for linux

[Chris Aitken]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 01:20:25PM -0400, Chris Aitken wrote:
>   
>> Chris Aitken wrote:
>>     
<snip>
> No, stereo is an incompatible use of the same connector.  You need the
> adapters that either connect each of the outputs to a standard RCA phono
> jack (remember the card has seperate left and right channel outputs).
> Or you need a cable that connects to both outputs and provides the 1/8"
> stereo jack you are used to on PCs.  EMU's website has a picture in the
> accessories of the second one.
>   
i went there and don't see the picture...
http://www.creative.com/products/welcome.asp?category=13
> TRS and balanced is the same thing.  What the adapters do is simply use
> the reference ground and one side of the balanced signal to give you a
> regular unbalanced signal (the other half is not connected).
>   
Unless the adaptor is TRS as well?
> If you try to connect normal PC speakers to just one connector with a
> 1/4" to 1/8" adapter you will either short something, or you will simply
> have both speakers playing one channel except out of phase (essentially
> trying to cancel each other out).
>   
Okay.
> Being detected as an Audigy is kind of reasonable since the 1212m is
> actually based on the same emu10002 chip as the audigy but uses
> additional chips that the audigy doesn't have along with much higher
> quality components to give better sound quality.
>   
Understood.
>> I will test the 1/4" male -to-1/8" female adaptor (that I have in the 
>> soundcard) to make sure it works. I'll go to alsa-projects.org again to 
>> see how to get the card working under linux. There also is a good hacker 
>> working in the local Krazy Krazy who might take this on. So, I need to 
>> do all I can quickly, so I can it to him, see what he can do, and still 
>> have time to get it back to L&McQ by Sept 17.
>>     
>
> Other than the cable, remember you must have 1.0.14 ALSA version (not
> 1.0.13 or 1.0.14rc).  And you need the alsa-firmware 1.0.14 in order to
> get the fpga code required by the card to work fully.
>   
As you know, my card is working now. If you think 1.0.14 will be better 
I'll install it. As you can see below I tried to use yum to install it 
(and avoid rpm dependency hell). Any suggestions?

[chris at p733 ~]$ su
Password:
[root at p733 chris]# yum install alsa-firmware-1.0.14
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Nothing to do
[root at p733 chris]# exit
exit
[chris at p733 ~]$ rpm -i Desktop/alsa*.rpm
warning: Desktop/alsa-firmware-1.0.14-0.pm.0.noarch.rpm: Header V3 DSA 
signature: NOKEY, key ID 5277a2fa
error: Failed dependencies:
        alsa >= 1.0.14 is needed by alsa-firmware-1.0.14-0.pm.0.noarch
        hotplug is needed by alsa-firmware-1.0.14-0.pm.0.noarch
[chris at p733 ~]$ man rpm

Chris
> Len Sorensen
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