oss_audigyls(7)

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oss_audigyls 💖

okay bestie, so this is oss_audigyls(7), one of the OSS Devices pages, and it's literally all about the Creative Labs CA106 driver — aka the AudigyLS / SBLive 24bit situation. sit down, hydrate, let's go 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

oss_audigyls — the Creative Labs CA106 driver (you might know it as AudigyLS / SBLive 24bit, iykyk) 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

It's the Open Sound System driver for the Creative Labs Audigy2-LS and SBLive 24bit 7.1 soundcards. no cap, that's the whole vibe.

So the Audigy-LS device characteristics? here's the tea 🍓:

  • 8/16/24 bit playback/record
  • mono/stereo/4/5.1 playback
  • 8KHz to 192Khz sample rate.

🦋 AUDIGYLS MODELS 🦋

There are 2 models of the AudigyLS device, and they are sisters, not twins:

  1. the one with an AC97 codec — that one is called the AudigyLS
  2. the one without — that one is called the SBLive 7.1

Essentially they are the same chip, but they behave a bit differently. it's giving "same energy, different era" 😭

⚠️ important!! When playing AC3 on the AudigyLS (the one with the AC97 mixer) — you need to ensure that the igain slider is set to 0. like, actually. don't skip this one.

🎀 AUDIGYLS MIXER 🎀

okay the mixer controls, let's break it down bestie:

  • The AudigyLS has 4 mixer controls for each channel.
  • The "spread" button will simply duplicate the front audio on the other 3 channels so that every speaker is playing what the front L/R is playing. iconic behaviour honestly.
  • LoopBack recording allows you to capture any channel that's playing audio. obsessed.
  • Record Volume slider just adjusts the input gain.
  • Record Source selector selects the input.
  • The "recmon" button enables a passthrough of the analog input signal.
  • Monitor Volume slider sets the passthrough gain if recmon is enabled.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • audigyls_spdif_enable=0|1 — The Audigy LS has a versa-jack (orange) that can be set as SPDIF output or the Side-Surround left/right speakers in a 7.1 setup. When set as SPDIF, you can get play PCM/AC3 audio to a Dolby(R) capable receiver. so like, one jack, two destinies 🔥

🌈 FILES 🌈

  • /etc/oss4/conf/oss_audigyls.conf — Device configuration file.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

4Front Technologies

and that's the whole page, periodt. this one came from the OSS Devices manual, written by 4Front Technologies, and dated 11 February 2015. go forth and configure your soundcard, main character 💖✨

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