On Thu, 27.09.07 10:06, Marcus Cobden (lists at marcuscobden.co.uk) wrote: Sorry for the late response. > pulseaudio[6008]: alsa-util.c: device doesn't support 6 channels, > changed to 2. > > Is this because my card drivers don't support 7.1? or is pulse somehow > going via alsa and that's causing a mess? We can only take what ALSA gives us. If you told PA to open the device for 6 channels, and you get that message, then apparently ALSA refused to give us that many channels. Could you please check if you get the same results with using "aplay -D hw:0" and if so, please ping the ALSA people about it? Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4