> > 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 "<a href="http://default.pa">default.pa</a>" 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 <a href="http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-tools.git;a=blob;f=hwmixvolume/README;hb=HEAD">http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-tools.git;a=blob;f=hwmixvolume/README;hb=HEAD</a> you have to post output of alsa-info.sh and pulseaudio verbose log <a href="http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-lib.git;a=blob;f=src/conf/cards/VIA8237.conf;hb=HEAD">http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-lib.git;a=blob;f=src/conf/cards/VIA8237.conf;hb=HEAD</a> <a href="https://cgit.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/tree/src/modules/alsa/mixer/samples/VIA%208237--Analog%20Devices%20AD1888">https://cgit.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/tree/src/modules/alsa/mixer/samples/VIA%208237--Analog%20Devices%20AD1888</a> seem "Master Surround Playback Volume" is not supported by pulseaudio <a href="https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git/tree/sound/pci/ac97/ac97_patch.c">https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git/tree/sound/pci/ac97/ac97_patch.c</a>