[pulseaudio-discuss] Why PA does not show me sinks for surround audio output?

[Maarten Bosmans]

2011/10/31 Lin, Mengdong <mengdong.lin at intel.com>:
>>> The default sample channels and channel map are commented in
>> > /etc/pulse/daemon.conf:
>> >
>> > ;default-sample-channels =2
>>
>> Uncomment that and set it to 6.
>
> I've tried this method but it doesn't work. The card's profile list has not change after I set default-sampel-channel=6.

As I said earlier, this setting has nothing to do with the problem
you're seeing. Jan's advise was wrong, but I agree that it is not
really evident or logical that changing that setting doesn't work.

Please provide the info I asked for earlier.

Maarten