[pulseaudio-discuss] Configuration problems with ALC888 on Zotac H55-ITX-C-E

[Tanu Kaskinen]

Hi Andrej,

Sorry for the delayed reply.

On Fri, 2011-12-30 at 21:32 +0100, Andrej Podzimek wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am not sure whether the following problem is related to PulseAudio
> or bare ALSA. ;-) On my snd_hda_intel card with a Realtek chipset
> mentioned in the subject, I have the following issues:

I'd guess that it's an Alsa issue. I think you should first figure out
how to make speaker-test work as expected in the 8-channel mode. This is
the command to test:

    speaker-test -D surround71:0 -c 8

Once that works, it should be possible to make Pulseaudio work too in
the 8-channel mode.

While testing, it's a good idea to prevent Pulseaudio from accessing the
sound card at the same time. Either you can stop pulseaudio ("pulseaudio
-k" or "killall pulseaudio"), in which case you should also disable
autospawning, or you can run "pasuspender bash", which starts a new
shell and will stop pulseaudio from using the sound card as long as the
shell is open. Autospawning is disabled by putting "autospawn = no" to
~/.pulse/client.conf.

> Just about any hint would be very helpful. :-)

I don't really have any advice for how to fix the situation if the
speaker test doesn't work. Some other people on this list might have
some hints... You could also on the Alsa mailing lists. I don't know
which one would be better, alsa-devel or alsa-user...

-- 
Tanu