On Sat, 09.05.09 01:15, Creighton Swank (swankcr at gmail.com) wrote: > Good evening all. > > I did a few google searches, and have really found nothing that solves my > problem. I just installed Fedora 10 on my new machine. It's got an onboard > audio card that I have my old Logitech 4.1 speakers plugged in to. > > I cannot seem to get any audio to come out of the rear speakers. The sub > kicks, but it's dirty. I have to turn the volume way up in order to hear > anything, and it gets very distorted. I tried editing default.pa to reflect > a custom channel_map (basically appended on the module-aksa-sink lines from > paman, and put them in /etc/pulse/default.pa), but it really didn't change > the scenario. It did, however, reflect the map in paman after a reboot. I > basically added this: > channels=5 channel_map=front-left,front-right,rear-left,rear-right,lfe > > I am at my wit's end. It's late, and I'm tired. Anything you all could do to > help me out would be much appreciated. > > Full hardware info and config files can be provided at your request. Don't use paman. It's obsolete. The surround mixer situation is messy. Have you tried "alsamixer -c0"? This allows you to bypass PA when the default initialization of the surround volumes didn't work properly for your case. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4