[pulseaudio-discuss] lost all but front L/R channels

[Tomasz Torcz]

On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 02:15:08PM -0500, Kyle Davenport wrote:
> I just realized I am only hearing sound out of my front Left and
> Right speakers.  I'm not sure when this started - perhaps after
> upgrading to Fedora 11.  I know in Fedora 10 I had analog from front
> and rear outputs of my SB Live.  I can switch the cables on the
> sound cards and hear front signal out the rear speakers so I know
> it's happening within the card.

  Well F11 is quit old and will receive updates for little over one
month only. Consider upgrade to F13 :)
  As for your problem, what hardware profile do you have selected in
pavucontrol/gnome-volume-control?  Is it really 4.0 or other multichannel?
Or maybe you have too old system to have profile selection in place...

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