Hi all, I'm struggling to get pulseaudio working on a machine with Q77 chipset ( device.product.name = "7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller",alsa.mixer_name = "Realtek ALC887-VD") but so far I had no success in getting pulseaudio working with 5.1 setup. Basically, my motherboard supports 2/4/6/8 channels configuration but pulseaudio activates only 2ch config. I'm using KDE and phonon shows only (using default configurations) left/right channels, (internal stereo audio) If I force pulseaudio to use all 5.1 channles, adding the following lines enable-lfe-remixing = yes default-sample-channels=6 default-channel-map = front-left,front-right,rear-left,rear-right,front-center,lfe in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf pulseaudio shows 5.1 channels (even in kde phonon), but front channels (l,r,c) works fine; lfe no sound and rl and rr are not working, anly a very low volume comes out from front speakers. I've tried all suggestions from google, mailing lists and forums as well but no joy so far. =============== Linux 3.9.3 $ aplay -L sysdefault:CARD=PCH HDA Intel PCH, ALC887-VD Analog Default Audio Device front:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 HDA Intel PCH, ALC887-VD Analog Front speakers surround40:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 HDA Intel PCH, ALC887-VD Analog 4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers surround41:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 HDA Intel PCH, ALC887-VD Analog 4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers surround50:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 HDA Intel PCH, ALC887-VD Analog 5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers surround51:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 HDA Intel PCH, ALC887-VD Analog 5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers surround71:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 HDA Intel PCH, ALC887-VD Analog 7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers ========== pulseaudio -vvvvv tells a different story, here an excerpt from output; I can provide full output, I didn't posted here to avoid unnecessary cluttering [...] D: [pulseaudio] alsa-mixer.c: Looking at profile output:analog-surround-51 D: [pulseaudio] alsa-mixer.c: Checking for playback on Analog Surround 5.1 (analog-surround-51) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Trying surround51:0 with SND_PCM_NO_AUTO_FORMAT ... D: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Managed to open surround51:0 D: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_hw_params_set_channels(6) failed: Invalid argument D: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Trying surround51:0 without SND_PCM_NO_AUTO_FORMAT ... D: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Managed to open surround51:0 D: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_hw_params_set_channels(6) failed: Invalid argument D: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Trying plug:surround51:0 with SND_PCM_NO_AUTO_FORMAT ... D: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Managed to open plug:surround51:0 D: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_hw_params_set_channels(6) failed: Invalid argument D: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Trying plug:surround51:0 without SND_PCM_NO_AUTO_FORMAT ... D: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Managed to open plug:surround51:0 D: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_hw_params_set_channels(6) failed: Invalid argument I: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Failed to set hardware parameters on plug:surround51:0: Invalid argument D: [pulseaudio] alsa-mixer.c: Caching failure to open output:analog-surround-51 D: [pulseaudio] alsa-mixer.c: Skipping profile output:analog-surround-51+input:analog-mono - will not be able to open output:analog-surround-51 D: [pulseaudio] alsa-mixer.c: Skipping profile output:analog-surround-51+input:analog-stereo - will not be able to open output:analog-surround-51 D: [pulseaudio] alsa-mixer.c: Skipping profile output:analog-surround-51+input:iec958-stereo - will not be able to open output:analog-surround-51 [...] Can someone give me an hint about how to sort this issue out? I'm pretty sure that I'm doing something wrong, but I'm not able to find what. -- Fabio -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20130520/9aa1725b/attachment-0001.html>