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

[Jan Steffens]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Lin, Mengdong <mengdong.lin at intel.com> wrote:
> The sound card on my desktop supports 5.1 sound output, but PA only show one
> sink for the 2-channel front speaker. Why? Is it mean that PA cannot support
> surround output by default?
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> 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.