[pulseaudio-discuss] hard channel mapping issue

[Dennis Heuer]

Thank you much! Got it working!

On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 23:51:47 +0800
Raymond Yau <superquad.vortex2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> >
> > I'm a bit stuck. On my system (chip AD1888 in a VIA 8237R)
> > everything seems to be detected fine, but I only get front-right
> > and front-left instead of 5.1. I configured "daemon.conf" to use a
> > correct default mapping and later also "default.pa" to create a new
> > sink with right mapping. However, even though all gui tools, and
> > even 'pacmd list', show it all right, 'pactl stat' shows wrong
> > device mappings in use:
> >
> > Server Name: pulseaudio
> > Server Version: 4.0
> > Default Sample Specification: s16le 6ch 44100Hz
> > Default Channel Map: front-left,front-left-of-center,front-center,
> >                      front-right,front-right-of-center,rear-center
> > Default Sink: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_14.2.analog-surround-51
> > Default Source:
> > alsa_output.pci-0000_00_14.2.analog-surround-51.monitor
> >
> > When I use an own defined sink, this sticks to the HDMI-source and
> > stereo, no matter what device I specify, i.e.:
> >
> > load-module module-alsa-sink sink_name=my_surround device=hw:1,0 \
> > channels=6 \
> > channel_map=front-left,front-right,rear-left,rear-right,front-center,lfe
> >
> > How can I get in sync the default and the chosen default setting?
> 
> How about
> 
>  speaker-test -c 6 -t wav -D surround51:CARD=VIA8237
> 
> 
> **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
> card 0: V8237 [VIA 8237], device 0: VIA 8237 [VIA 8237]
>   Subdevices: 4/4
>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>   Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
>   Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
>   Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
> 
> seem have four DXS subdevices
> 
> http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-tools.git;a=blob;f=hwmixvolume/README;hb=HEAD
> 
> you have to post output of alsa-info.sh and pulseaudio verbose log
> 
> http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-lib.git;a=blob;f=src/conf/cards/VIA8237.conf;hb=HEAD
> 
> https://cgit.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/tree/src/modules/alsa/mixer/samples/VIA%208237--Analog%20Devices%20AD1888
> 
> seem "Master Surround Playback Volume" is not supported by pulseaudio
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git/tree/sound/pci/ac97/ac97_patch.c



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