[Openal] problems with surround under Linux

[Tomasz Noiński]

On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Prakash Punnoor wrote:

> Am Donnerstag 09 November 2006 15:39 schrieb Tomasz Noiński:
> > 4) "(define devices '(oss))"
> >
> > Seems like 2 channels only (rear and front speakers sound the same).
> >
> > 5) "(define devices '(alsa))", "(define speaker-num 6)", "(define
> > alsa-out-device "surround51:0,0")"
> >
> > Completely quiet!
> >
> > 6) speaker-num 5, surround50:0,0
> > 7) speaker-num 5, surround41:0,0
> >
> > Rear speakers were quiet and I heard in the front left speaker what was
> > supposed to be in rear-left only.
> >
> > 8) speaker-num 4, surround40:0,0
> >
> > The same sound in rear and front speakers.
>
> The SI only has support for stereo and quad sound output, so no 5.1. I don't
> quite remember what was needed to enable quad output, but I'd think your last
> try should have had success. I'll check when I find time (not before
> week-end).

Uhm, I don't really know what "SI" means... Could you please elaborate? :)

I believe OpenAL itself has 5.1 support, so it could mean that this exact
implementation can't do 5.1?
Are there any alternatives I should look into?

(I would be really happy to have 4.0 surround, anyway)

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