On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 01:01 +0100, tommy wrote: > So, This day i managed to give my sb live 24bit back and > get an audigy 2 ZS. > > however, there seems to be some problems with 5.1 audio output. > when using mplayer with -channels 4 i get desired audio autput thru ALL 5 > speakers of my card ???, and, for maximum confusing, when using -channels 6 > i also get output thru all speakers, BUT some channels are missing ?!? > namely the channels, on which spoken text is outputted (in kill bill). > so i can hear > surround-music, but i CAN't hear the people talk ... > i think taht has something todo with the card being a 7.1 card and upmixing > the stuff to 7.1 ? > > i've tried virtually all settings possible in alsamixer for some hours, > and also > googled a lot, but i cant find anything ;( > Interesting, it should work. Please post your report to alsa-user at lists.sourceforge.net. If you don't get a response then file an ALSA bug report. Almost all ALSA development happens via the bug tracker these days, so you should get a resolution this way. Lee