center speaker with emu10k1 and other soundquestions

[Sebastiaan <S.Breedveld@ITS.TUDelft.NL>]

Hello,

proudly I bought Creative's sound blaster platinum 5.1 (emu10k1) with
Digital desktop theatre DTT 2200. This combination should give me dolby
digital surround sound with five speakers and a bass. 

First question: which module is recommended to use? OSS module from 2.4.4,
the module from opensource.creative.com or alsa modules?

Every module I tried worked correct (sound from all speakers), except the
front center speaker. Whatever I tried, I can not get sound out of this. 

Second question: how do you enable the center speaker?

Third question: is there a sound utility with which you can test your
speakers (left, right, front, rear, etc.)?

Fourth question: what is the best way to intercept the system beep and
redirect it to the soundcard? I have read the sound-howto, but the
proposed patches seems to be too much in development yet. I remember that
it is possble in X with a tool, but I do not know which anymore.


Thanks in advance!
Sebastiaan


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