Hi, Just putting this here so I don't forget about it. Someone on IRC (gee) reported that his surround71 profile wasn't being detected. This was due to a control in alsamixer that needed to be configured for 7.1 to work... --- mixer-7ch-before.txt 2010-12-06 10:39:58.534681384 +0000 +++ mixer-7ch-after.txt 2010-12-06 10:39:56.420717992 +0000 @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ Simple mixer control 'Channel Mode',0 Capabilities: enum Items: '6ch' '8ch' - Item0: '6ch' + Item0: '8ch' Simple mixer control 'Input Source',0 Capabilities: cenum Items: 'Mic' 'Front Mic' 'Line' 'CD' I'm not yet sure if 8ch mode breaks something else, (e.g. prevents surround51 from working), so will ask gee this on IRC and report back. Simplest solution would just be to force this to 8ch all the time but if that doesn't work we'll have to be smarter (enabling 8ch only when using surround71 and setting it to 6ch at all other times). Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mageia Contributor [http://www.mageia.org/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]