On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 08:08:20PM EST, Kirk Reiser wrote: > Luke, you haven't told us what sound card you are using. The > multichannel capabilities depend a lot on the card. I have had it run > just fine with softDec and the sb live. I don't tend to use asoundrc > though I have a one liner script for setting the virtual device > volumes for mixing. Ah my apologies. It is simply a standard AC97 card in a ThinkPad R50 notebook. I am quite sure this card does not have multi-channel capabilities. Luke