HD Audio problem

[Yousuf Khan]

I have quadraphonic speakers on my system. In order to get sound out of
my rear speakers, I have had to attach them to jacks for the central and
subwoofer speakers, rather than to the jacks for the Rear-Right &
Rear-Left. That's at best a work around to my problem, so how do I
properly solve this problem?

Yousuf Khan

 

[chrisv]

I have quadraphonic speakers on my system. In order to get sound out of my
rear speakers, I have had to attach them to jacks for the central and
subwoofer speakers, rather than to the jacks for the Rear-Right &
Rear-Left. That's at best a work around to my problem, so how do I
properly solve this problem?

....and the source you're trying to listen to is?

2.1?
5.1?

 

[Bob I]

If the correct drivers for the sound hardware are installed, then you
may have a wiring connection issue.

 

[Paul]

I have quadraphonic speakers on my system. In order to get sound out of
my rear speakers, I have had to attach them to jacks for the central and
subwoofer speakers, rather than to the jacks for the Rear-Right &
Rear-Left. That's at best a work around to my problem, so how do I
properly solve this problem?

Yousuf Khan

Do you have an actual speaker configuration setting in the control
panel, to match your speakers ?

This is my control panel. I'm surprised, but it has a quadraphonic
option. Some computer audio solutions don't have quadraphonic (4.0)
and have cloned stereo instead (the ability to drive two sets of
headphones with the same content). The next closest thing they'd
offer, is 5.1, and the audio imaging wouldn't be right if you connected
four speakers to a 5.1 set of outputs.

http://www.fcenter.ru/img/article/sound/integrated_audiodecisions_2/32730.gif

And this is the output table from my motherboard manual.

2-channel 4-channel 5.1 7.1

Lime Front Front Front Front
Orange --- --- Center/Sub Center/Sub
Black --- Rear Rear Rear
Gray --- --- --- Side

With cloned stereo, you can probably get the copy of
stereo data, to come out on any two of those jacks.
Cloned stereo might be something RealTek offers in
their driver.

Paul

 

[Yousuf Khan]

...and the source you're trying to listen to is?

2.1?
5.1?

It's really a 4.0, but it's got a non-dedicated subwoofer.

Yousuf Khan

 

[Yousuf Khan]

Do you have an actual speaker configuration setting in the control
panel, to match your speakers ?

No, I don't have that kind of control panel applet, just the standard
Sound applet.

This is my control panel. I'm surprised, but it has a quadraphonic
option. Some computer audio solutions don't have quadraphonic (4.0)
and have cloned stereo instead (the ability to drive two sets of
headphones with the same content). The next closest thing they'd
offer, is 5.1, and the audio imaging wouldn't be right if you connected
four speakers to a 5.1 set of outputs.

http://www.fcenter.ru/img/article/sound/integrated_audiodecisions_2/32730.gif


And this is the output table from my motherboard manual.

2-channel 4-channel 5.1 7.1

Lime Front Front Front Front
Orange --- --- Center/Sub Center/Sub
Black --- Rear Rear Rear
Gray --- --- --- Side

With cloned stereo, you can probably get the copy of
stereo data, to come out on any two of those jacks.
Cloned stereo might be something RealTek offers in
their driver.

The HD Audio doesn't come from Realtek, it comes from a VIA chipset.

Yousuf Khan

 

[Yousuf Khan]

Do you have an actual speaker configuration setting in the control
panel, to match your speakers ?

BTW, the proper arrangement works under Ubuntu Linux, I only have to
switch the connection over to Central/SubW for Windows 7.

Yousuf Khan

 

[Paul]

BTW, the proper arrangement works under Ubuntu Linux, I only have to
switch the connection over to Central/SubW for Windows 7.

Yousuf Khan

If it's RealTek, you should have one of these.

http://d.imagehost.org/0892/RealTek.jpg

The Windows 7 version looks something like this.

http://www.w7forums.com/attachments...s-7-and-realtek-hd-audio-problem-untitled.jpg

Paul

 

[Yousuf Khan]

If it's RealTek, you should have one of these.

http://d.imagehost.org/0892/RealTek.jpg

No, it wasn't Realtek, it is VIA Vinyl Audio. Beginning to wish I got
Realtek, at least I'd have properly function utilities.

The Windows 7 version looks something like this.

http://www.w7forums.com/attachments...s-7-and-realtek-hd-audio-problem-untitled.jpg

Well, it was starting to look like that since everyone was suggesting I
use some kind of Realtek utility, I went to see if Asus had any newer
VIA drivers, with hopefully a passable VIA utility. Looks like it
worked, just upgraded to the V6017900 (easy to remember numbers!)
drivers. Looks like it's working under Linux and Win7 the same now.

Yousuf Khan