Hello, I already wrote to this list and provided some incorrect temporary information. Because nobody answered, I went to the alsa mailinglist and got the case corrected. Here's the new stand (also see the appendix): --- cite --- Dennis Heuer wrote: > Dennis Heuer <einz at verschwendbare-verweise.seinswende.de> wrote: > I now updated to linux 4.4.0.13. >>>> control.41 { >>>> iface PCM >>>> name 'Playback Channel Map' >>>> value.0 3 >>>> value.1 4 >>>> value.2 5 >>>> value.3 6 >>>> value.4 7 >>>> value.5 8 Oops, the valid values actually begin at 3. This channel map is correct: 3:front left, 4:front right, 5:rear left, 6:rear right, 7:front center, 8:LFE PulseAudio's map: > front-left,front-left-of-center,front-center, > front-right, front-right-of-center,rear-center would be the equivalent of 3,12,7,4,13,11. This is not what the driver tells it; this appears to be a bug in PulseAudio. Regards, Clemens --- I did put this line in default.pa, which worked but without effect: load-module module-alsa-sink sink_name=alsa_output.pci-0000_00_14.2.analog-surround-51 device_id=1 channels=6 channel_map=front-left,front-right,rear-left,rear-right,front-center,lfe --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dennis Heuer einz at verschwendbare-verweise.seinswende.de -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: alsa-info.txt.3dhT4I7auO Type: application/octet-stream Size: 43517 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20160324/64d594a2/attachment-0002.obj> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: pactl.stat Type: application/octet-stream Size: 705 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20160324/64d594a2/attachment-0003.obj>