[pulseaudio-discuss] How to enable surround 5.1 output on laptop

[Ng Oon-Ee]

On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 23:42 +0100, Major Péter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop, which has two headphone output and
> one mic input, see picture:
> http://images.techtree.com/ttimages/story/87259_frontcombo.jpg
> 
> On my winxp, I can do, that the left jack goes to the front speakers,
> the center jack goes to the center speaker, and the right jack goes to
> the rear speakers and everything works great.
> But on Linux I can't even make work the second headphone jack. :(
> What should I do to enable 5.1 surround?
> 
> I'm using pulseaudio 0.9.21 with
> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio
> Controller (rev 02)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Best Regards,
> Peter Major

What version of pulseaudio? In pavucontrol there should be a
Configuration tab where you can make some selections on how to use the
card. Otherwise (depending on how much alsa likes your card) you may
have to mess around with alsa-level set up.