On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Lin, Mengdong <mengdong.lin at intel.com> wrote: > 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? > > > > The default sample channels and channel map are commented in > /etc/pulse/daemon.conf: > > ;default-sample-channels =2 Uncomment that and set it to 6.