This document is for the SBLive soundcards that come pre-installed
in some Dell machines. Due to differences with the standard SBLive
and Audigy soundcards, we call this the EMU10K1X device.

- The analog front and rear speaker signals will get mixed together (both
signals can be heard from both speakers).

- There is no volume control for PCM rear or PCM Center/LFE channels.

- No S/PDIF mixer support.

Channel allocation:
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/dev/dsp0 is front playback and recording.
/dev/dsp1 is rear playback.
/dev/dsp2 is center/lfe.

There is one options.cfg setting. emu10k1x_spdif_enable=0 disables S/PDIF
and enables the analog center/lfe output (digital center/LFE output will
always work). emu10k1x_spdif_enable=1 (default) enables S/PDIF and
disables analog center/LFE.

CDROM Audio
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The SBLive 5.1 Dell OEM version doesn't have the CD audio cable connected
between the CDROM and the soundcard. For that reason you cannot use any
of the CD players that come with Gnome or KDE to listen to CDs. You will
need to use Xine or XMMS to play CDs digitally extracted on the fly.

To configure XMMS to play CDs digitally, you must press

in
the XMMS window, then highlight the CD Audio Player plugin in the
"Audio I/O Plugin tab" and press the "Configure" button. Now, under
the "Device" tab, check mark the "Digital Audio Extraction" option.
Set up the CDROM device and the directory where it will be mounted
and press the "OK" buttons to close both windows. In order to play CDs,
press the "Eject" button and under the Directory browser, change the
directory to the CDROM mount directory set in the CDROM config panel
described above. You should now see the tracks listed and finally,
select a track and press the "Play" button and you should now
be able to hear CD audio.

With Xine, no additional configuration is needed as it's automatically
set to play CDs digitally. Press the CD button on the main Xine window
and you should start hearing CDs play via the /dev/dsp device

If you do have the analog CD cable, you can simply plug it into the
CDROM and connect the other end to the soundcard and then CD audio
plays via the analog output which can be controlled by the CD slider
on ossxmix.