On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 07:28:37PM -0400, David O wrote: > Hello all, > > I recently set up a home theater PC running Ubuntu 11.04 Natty > Narwhal. It is connected via HDMI to my Samsung receiver which > supports 5.1 output (including PCM, Dolby Digital, and DTS). This wouldn't be a Samsung C560S, would it? I have that working just fine with also an Intel HDMI chipset. It's a different one, though. I do remember having played with pulseaudio once on my home audio system, and having things go wrong then. Did you try this without using pulseaudio at all? Just disable the daemon, and try again. I don't expect this to actually solve the problem, but it might. If that works, it's clearly pulseaudio at fault... -- The volume of a pizza of thickness a and radius z can be described by the following formula: pi zz a ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy2 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user