Trying to get 5.1 output over the rear jacks on a couple of Asus motherboards. Asus A8N-VM CSM and Asus M2NPV-VM They both use the AD1986A chipset and I have working stereo and spdif output with Alsa 1.0.11 and a 2.6.15 kernel. I've been trying to get a working 5.1 out over the rear jacks and I can't get the output to work. I've tried upgrading to Alsa 1.0.13 but no luck so far and i'm not sure if there is a component i've failed to upgrade. Anyone out there got a working configuration, and preferably let me know the versions of their various sound packages etc. At the moment I've been trying > speaker-test -Dsurround51 -c 6 > > speaker-test 1.0.13 > > Playback device is surround51 > Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 6 channels > Using 16 octaves of pink noise > Rate set to 48000Hz (requested 48000Hz) > Buffer size range from 22 to 5461 > Period size range from 11 to 2730 > Using max buffer size 5460 > Periods = 4 > was set period_size = 1365 > was set buffer_size = 5460 > 0 - Front Left > Write error: -5,Input/output error > xrun_recovery failed: -5,Input/output error > Transfer failed: Operation not permitted aplay -Drear /usr/share/games/tuxracer/sounds/fish_pickup2.wav ALSA lib pcm.c:2014:(snd_pcm_open_conf) Invalid type for PCM rear definition (id: rear, value: cards.pcm.rear) aplay: main:550: audio open error: Invalid argument Plus aplay -L reveals cards 'cards.pcm' front 'cards.pcm.front' rear 'cards.pcm.rear' center_lfe 'cards.pcm.center_lfe' side 'cards.pcm.side' surround40 'cards.pcm.surround40' surround41 'cards.pcm.surround41' surround50 'cards.pcm.surround50' surround51 'cards.pcm.surround51' surround71 'cards.pcm.surround71' iec958 'cards.pcm.iec958' spdif 'cards.pcm.iec958' modem 'cards.pcm.modem' phoneline 'cards.pcm.phoneline' default 'cards.pcm.default' dmix 'cards.pcm.dmix' dsnoop 'cards.pcm.dsnoop' Any ideas whats going on? Steve ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
