[Fedora] KMix volume sliders

[Ashley M. Kirchner]

    I'm revisiting this because there didn't seem to have been any 
suggestions as to a possible fix.  Marko seconded the multitude of 
sliders and commented on the linear versus exponential volume slider, 
while Tim pointed out that you really do want a logarithmic slider, not 
linear.  But, we still don't have a solution for my initial problem 
posted below.  And I'd also like to add something else I noticed today:  
SB Live! has two speaker outputs, labeled channel 1 and 2.   Under XP, I 
can get both channels to work simultaneously (and thus allowing me to 
use 2 sets of speakers.)  But no amount of slider configuration or 
turning on or off of the little red and green indicators would output 
sound on the second channel - everything's on the first one.  So...is 
that another undocumented "feature"?  Something missing?

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Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
>
>    I have an Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 in my system running FC5.  
> In KMix, everything seems to fall under the PCM (and Master) volume 
> sliders.  How can I fix it so that when I'm playing MIDI files it 
> routes through the correct volume slider (whichever that might be) and 
> when I'm playing MP3, it goes through the PCM one?
>
>    Looking at all the KMix channels available to me, I have:
>
> Wave Center, Wave LFE, Wave Surround,    Master, Headphone, Bass, 
> Treble (which incidentally don't do anything either one - *update:* 
> these works now), 3D Control Sigmatel - Depth, PCM, Center, LFE, PC 
> Speaker, and AC97.  Under the Input tab there's a whole slew of 
> sliders, and under Switches tab there are a few more.
>
>    Everything seems to get routed through the PCM channel and I can 
> control volume using that slider and the Master volume slider.  When I 
> used this card under WinXP, I was able to get MIDI through the MIDI 
> channel (or Synth), MP3/Wave through a separate one, and the PC 
> speaker through a different one, so I could individually control each 
> one.  Is this possible under unix?
>


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