Thank you much! Got it working! On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 23:51:47 +0800 Raymond Yau <superquad.vortex2 at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > 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? > > How about > > speaker-test -c 6 -t wav -D surround51:CARD=VIA8237 > > > **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** > card 0: V8237 [VIA 8237], device 0: VIA 8237 [VIA 8237] > Subdevices: 4/4 > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 > Subdevice #1: subdevice #1 > Subdevice #2: subdevice #2 > Subdevice #3: subdevice #3 > > seem have four DXS subdevices > > http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-tools.git;a=blob;f=hwmixvolume/README;hb=HEAD > > you have to post output of alsa-info.sh and pulseaudio verbose log > > http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-lib.git;a=blob;f=src/conf/cards/VIA8237.conf;hb=HEAD > > https://cgit.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/tree/src/modules/alsa/mixer/samples/VIA%208237--Analog%20Devices%20AD1888 > > seem "Master Surround Playback Volume" is not supported by pulseaudio > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git/tree/sound/pci/ac97/ac97_patch.c --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dennis Heuer einz at verschwendbare-verweise.seinswende.de