Hi, sorry to poke you about that, but that problem isn't a PA one, it's either ALSA or Radeon, but none of them even answered. So I figured you guys have had a lot of experience dealing with ALSA drivers troubles and could tell me where to look for solutions (or at least correct diagnostic). I have a Radeon HD2600, linked though a DVI-to-HDMI cable to a Yamaha RX-1600 amp. ALSA doesn't accept something else than stereo files, e.g: [root at awak:~]$ speaker-test -Dhw:1,3 -c6 -twav speaker-test 1.0.23 Playback device is hw:1,3 Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 6 channels WAV file(s) Channels count (6) not available for playbacks: Argument invalide Setting of hwparams failed: Argument invalide always fails for -cx with x != 2. Which is weird because HDMI should support 8 PCM channels AFAIK. My amp is configured for 5.1. Do you guys know of any way of debugging this and find where is the problem (snd_hda_intel, snd_hda_codec, snd_hda_codec_hdmi, or even the amp) ? Thanks, Xav