Hello, I'm a bit stuck. On my system (chip AD1888 in a VIA 8237R) everything seems to be detected fine, but I only get front-right and front-left instead of 5.1. I configured "daemon.conf" to use a correct default mapping and later also "default.pa" to create a new sink with right mapping. However, even though all gui tools, and even 'pacmd list', show it all right, 'pactl stat' shows wrong device mappings in use: Server Name: pulseaudio Server Version: 4.0 Default Sample Specification: s16le 6ch 44100Hz Default Channel Map: front-left,front-left-of-center,front-center, front-right,front-right-of-center,rear-center Default Sink: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_14.2.analog-surround-51 Default Source: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_14.2.analog-surround-51.monitor When I use an own defined sink, this sticks to the HDMI-source and stereo, no matter what device I specify, i.e.: load-module module-alsa-sink sink_name=my_surround device=hw:1,0 \ channels=6 \ channel_map=front-left,front-right,rear-left,rear-right,front-center,lfe How can I get in sync the default and the chosen default setting? --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dennis Heuer einz at verschwendbare-verweise.seinswende.de