2011/10/31 Lin, Mengdong <mengdong.lin at intel.com>: > The sound card on my desktop supports 5.1 sound output, but PA only show one > sink for the 2-channel front speaker. Why? Is it mean that PA cannot support > surround output by default? To be clear: pulse should handle this by default. > The default sample channels and channel map are commented in > /etc/pulse/daemon.conf: > > ;default-sample-channels =2 > > ;default-channel-map= front-left,front-right This has nothing to do with it. > It seems the card has no profiles for surround output, by ?pacmd > list-cards?: > > profiles: > > ?????????????????? output:analog-stereo: Analog Stereo Output (priority > 6000) > > ?????????????????? output:analog-stereo+input:analog-stereo: Analog Stereo > Duplex (priority 6060) > > ?????????????????? input:analog-stereo: Analog Stereo Input (priority 60) > > ?????????????????? off: Off (priority 0) Can you post output of pulseaudio -vvvv? btw, the IRC channel is also good for these kinds of troubleshooting. Maarten
