'Twas brillig, and Aitor Pazos at 22/01/11 19:29 did gyre and gimble: > Dear list, > I've installed pulseaudio in a headless server. I can play files through all my > speakers (5.1) using alsa directly, but pulseaudio only creates estereo > profiles for the alsa sink. I've tried to force "channels=6" in default.pa for > the alsa-sink but it keeps loading it as a stereo sink. > > "speaker-test -c 6" works fine, indeed. > > My system: > Soundcard: Creative Sound Blaster XFi USB Pro > kernel: 2.6.35 armv5tel > pulseaudio: 0.9.21 > > Is there a way to force Pulseaudio to apply a 5.1 profile? > Any idea? Sure, you have three choices: 1. Enable network support and use a GUI client on a non-headless system (e.g. PULSE_SERVER=<headless_ip> pavucontrol) and pick a 5.1 Configuration profile. 2. Use "pacmd list-cards" to see a list of card profiles, then then use "pacmd set-card-profile idx profile" to set a 5.1 profile 3. Set default-sample-channels=6 in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf HTHs 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/]
