On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 2:49 AM, Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi! > > On 25.11.2010 06:12, John Ettedgui wrote: >> I'm actually trying to get a 5.1 setup working without passthrough, if >> I use mplayer with passthrough my receiver behaves just fine, but I am >> trying to send the 6 channels from the computer. >> >> I was actually told that the current ALSA driver for radeon's hdmi >> does not support more than 2 channels, and that would explain why I'm >> getting this behavior. Is that true though? > > Yes. > > > However, strangely your log output seems to show the intel's hdmi parser > being used instead: > >> ALSA sound/pci/hda/patch_intelhdmi.c:842: hdmi_setup_stream: NID=0x2, >> stream=0x1, new-format=0x11 > > Were you just trying some patch at the time? > > -- > Anssi Hannula > Hi, yes Wu gave me a patch to try against the kernel, I'm guessing this is the reason you see something unexpected. Since I just moved to jack/rca cables I'm in no hurry anymore, but is there any reason why the driver cannot work with more than 2 channels? Anything I could do to help with that? Thank you! John _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
