[pulseaudio-discuss] Audigy2 card with 7.1 Channels, only getting 2

[Marcus Cobden]

Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Thu, 27.09.07 10:06, Marcus Cobden (lists at marcuscobden.co.uk) wrote:
> 
> Sorry for the late response.
No problem, better late than never :)

> We can only take what ALSA gives us. If you told PA to open the device
> for 6 channels, and you get that message, then apparently ALSA refused
> to give us that many channels.
> 
> Could you please check if you get the same results with using "aplay
> -D hw:0" and if so, please ping the ALSA people about it?
> 
> Lennart

Thanks for the pointers, I'll have a look next time I'm home.

Marcus