On Fri, 31.07.09 16:57, sladivadi (sladivadi at verat.net) wrote: > Hi! > I've got a Realtek ALC888 Audio Codec on my motherboard. It has six 3.5mm > jacks and each of them has a DAC so you can use all of them for output. > There is no profile to use more than three of them (5.1). > The Alsamixer shows a 6ch/8ch switch but it seems PA ignores this? PA relies on the correct definition of ALSA's surround40:xxx/ surround51:xxx/... style devices. The one defined whith the highest number of channels is surround71:xxxx. There is no definition for a higher number of channels, currently in ALSA. Does 'aplay -D plug:surround71:xxxx -f CD < /dev/urandom' work? If it does but isn't picked up by PA then this might be a PA issue. But if it doesn't then this is a simply a limitation of ALSA and should be brought to the attention of the ALSA devs. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
