I am using kernel 2.6.35 with a gentoo distribution. Is it possible that this bug has been fixed since kernel 2.6.35? Is it possible to try the latest drivers? Thanks Tom On 09/15/10 17:02, Colin Guthrie wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and Thomas Corner at 15/09/10 15:42 did gyre and gimble: >> I've been going around and around on this. The surround sound 5.1 is >> playing fine except channel 0 (front-left) is playing on the woofer. The >> card is a Terratec Aureon fun - CMI8738-MC6. I have >> gotten desperate and have tested this card in Windows and was able to >> get it working right there. I have been using speaker-test to >> to test the setup. I am using pulseaudio. >> >> This is the summary of my results with speaker-test: >> >> speaker-test -c 6 -D surround51 -t wav >> speaker output >> ---------------------- >> front L silence >> front R front R >> center center >> bass mix of front L + bass >> surround L surround L >> surround R surround R > Smells like something is messed up with the alsa driver. Someone in > alsa-devel can probably help you best here. Could be a strange mixer > setting but I doubt it. > > >> I have removed pulseaudio again (recompiled all software with optional >> pulseaudio support without pulseaudio support) I should be outputting >> directly to alsa and the driver now. > That is massive overkill. I'd just stick with your distro's packages > rather than recompiling everything and disabling PA support. > > The speaker test using the names surround* etc. do not use pulseaudio > anyway. > >> Under pulseaudio speaker-test gives error messages when surround40 and >> surround51 is specified. > This will only be true if pulseaudio daemon is running and has the > device open. Much easier to just run speaker-test as: > > pasuspender -- speaker-test -D surround51 ... > > than recompiling everything :) > > But ultimately it seems to be an alsa problem. > > All the best > > Col > > > > _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
