CMSS with Audigy 2 ZS on Li

Hi,
I want to switch from my currently used Windows 2000 to a Linux-System.
Therefore support of my Audigy 2 ZS soundcard is very important for me.
On a little research I made in the web I found out, that the Audigy 2 ZS seems to be generally supported under linux.
Currently I use a Creative Gigaworks S750 soundsystem with CMSS enabled in the EAX-config.
I don't want, that I can only use 2 of the 8 speakers of my sound system under Linux.
Does anyone know here if a CMSS-like feature is also supported under Linux for my soundcard?
TIA,
NeptunusMessage Edited by neptunus on 07-30-2006 09:4 AM

Yeah, that'll work. The control is called "Surround" instead of "CMSS", but the effect seems the same to me. (This is based on experience with an Audigy 4 Pro and an Audigy 2 ZS Notebook).
You'll also be able to dri've them in a 5. configuration when watching a DVD, if you call mplayer like so:
mplayer -channels 6 dvd://
Note that -ao hwac3 will only result in a pure AC3 stream on the digital outputs of the card, but silence on the analog channels. I must admit that I haven't tried whether -channels 7 will result in 6. output for DTS-ES & Dolby Digital eX.
I no longer have my Audigy4 Pro but the Audigy 2 ZS Notebook is still available for testing purposes.
Should you have the Platinum or Platinum Pro model, the infrared remote is supported, as is headphone jack sense on the bay. It'll take some work to set it up properly. (Most folks on the internet do not seem to have realized that jack sense is reported over MIDI just like the remote events)
Basically the only thing on my Audigy 4 Pro that I could not dri've properly were the LEDs on the bay.

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