alsa-project/alsa-lib issue #362 was opened from sylware: Isn't the time for dmix to try to configure by default the audio hardware with as many channels as possible up to 8 (at min 48/44.1 kHz, 16bits/float32)? The channel map should be fine nowadays, shouldn't it? Issue URL : https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-lib/issues/362 Repository URL: https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-lib