On Mon, 2014-02-24 at 09:12 -0600, Sean McCully wrote: > That profile appears to exists in ALSA configuration. > > $ pasuspender -- speaker-test --channels=6 --device=surround51:0 > > speaker-test 1.0.27.2 > > Playback device is surround51:0 > Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 6 channels > Using 16 octaves of pink noise > Channels count (6) not available for playbacks: Invalid argument > Setting of hwparams failed: Invalid argument So surround51:0 doesn't accept six channel configuration. This is a bug in alsa-lib. You can complain on the alsa-devel mailing list. When writing there, include the output that you pasted above, and the output of alsa-info.sh. -- Tanu
