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Fedora (10) ca0106 Audigy SE sound card working with 5.1

Sunday, May 10, 2009 By kevmille

Today I installed Fedora 10 on my desktop. I need to spend some months working with Fedora to prepare for my Red Hat Certified Engineer exam which I will hopefully take this summer.

I immediately had sound problems.  Luckily, I was able to refer to my old posting from one year ago for the fix.  This is just an edited version of that post.

My desktop is currently using the Creative Audigy SE sound card (ca0106) which can be very un-Linux friendly.  As I mentioned 9 months ago, I was able to get sound from my front 3 speakers but I wanted all 5 speakers to work as well (5.1).

With Arch Linux and Gentoo Linux, I was able to get surround sound on all five speakers with the following .asoundrc file and saved it to my /home directory:

pcm.!dmix {
type plug
slave {
pcm surround51
channels 6
}
}
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm “dmix”
slave.channels 6
route_policy duplicate
}

With Fedora, similarly to Ubuntu, I was not getting surround sound with the above file.

I remembered that I needed to add the following to /etc/pulse/default.pa:

load-module module-alsa-sink device=”surround51″ channels=6 sink_name=sur51

Still, no surround sound.  Then I reread my old post and realized that I needed to add the entire contents of .asoundrc to /etc/asound.conf as well to make the settings system wide.

I rebooted and got all 5 speakers to work.  Thank God for old posts 🙂

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  1. Chris says

    Sunday, May 10, 2009 at 6:24 pm

    Kevin, I think you’d be much better off playing with CentOS in order to prepare for RHCE exams. It’s much, much closer to RedHat’s enterprise offerings than Fedora…

  2. SaigonNezumi (Kevin) says

    Sunday, May 10, 2009 at 8:20 pm

    @Chris: I will actually run CentOS 5.3 in VirtualBox for my preparation. You know, double dose of fun 🙂

  3. Chris says

    Sunday, May 10, 2009 at 9:09 pm

    Argh! What could possibly go wrong with a setup like that? 😀

    Can you let me know when the next LUG meeting in HCMC will be?

  4. SaigonNezumi (Kevin) says

    Monday, May 11, 2009 at 10:24 am

    🙂 SELinux for one thing. It is new to me.

    There will be a ViPLUG meeting on Thursday. I will send out an email and then Google Calendar invite today.

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