[pulseaudio-discuss] Terratec Aureon surround40 missing?

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Fri, 2013-06-07 at 20:07 +0300, Wille P. Salminen wrote:
> cat /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/profile-sets/terratec-aureon-51.conf
> [General]
> auto-profiles = yes
> 
> [Mapping analog-surround-40]
> device-strings = surround40:%f
> channel-map = front-left,front-right,rear-left,rear-right
> paths-output = analog-output analog-output-speaker
> analog-output-desktop-speaker analog-output-lfe-on-mono
> priority = 6
> direction = output
> 
> [Mapping analog-surround-41]
> device-strings = surround41:%f
> channel-map = front-left,front-right,rear-left,rear-right,lfe
> paths-output = analog-output analog-output-speaker
> analog-output-desktop-speaker analog-output-lfe-on-mono
> priority = 7
> direction = output

One workaround would be to fake a 4.0 profile by replacing "lfe" in the
4.1 channel map with "aux0". The device will be opened with five
channels, but PulseAudio will effectively use only four of them.

-- 
Tanu