On 25.11.2010 13:09, John Ettedgui wrote: > On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 2:49 AM, Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@xxxxxx> wrote: >> 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? > > yes Wu gave me a patch to try against the kernel, I'm guessing this is > the reason you see something unexpected. Did 6 channels work with that patch? (possibly with a wrong channel order) Also, could you provide the patch? (so that I won't ask you or anyone else to test unnecessary stuff :) ) I wasn't able to locate the original thread in archives. > 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? I don't really know (it is simply not implemented). > Anything I could do to help with that? Possibly. But see above, so that we won't try the same things you already tried :) -- Anssi Hannula _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
