'Twas brillig, and Kyle Davenport at 10/05/10 05:08 did gyre and gimble: > ok, I found it. I had to go into alsamixer and change the default card > of Pulseaudio to SBLive and then change the volume on the Surround > control. No idea why it was turned down to 13%. This control is > completely hidden from PulseAudio... > > Also, I had to kill the pulseaudio server and run pavucontrol to get my > hardware device back. If you use a Stereo profile in PulseAudio, then it will only show you the stereo channels. Use pavucontrol and on the Configuration tab you should have a 5.1 profile. Simply select this and you should have the full five channels exposed via PA. If things don't work for you then there is a good chance that alsa driver issues (via what they expose in a uniform and consistent way via the mixer interface) or in PA itself may be at fault. As both your alsa drivers and PA version is really old, I think you should probably try the latest versions before drawing any conclusions. Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
