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Soumyadeep

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Registered: 2009-09-09

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[SOLVED]no 5.1 channel o/p in pulseaudio

I have  realtek alc662 rev2 onboard sound, installed pulseaudio to get 5.1 channel output, I follwed the archwiki about pulseaudio carefully,did everything exactly but still no 5.1 channel o/p is there.There is volume control option for all the 6 channels in both alsamixer and pulsevolumecontrol but only the front channels are active in the volume meter.
When selecting 5.1 channel in vlc it says "VLC could not open the ALSA device "surround51" (Device or resource busy)."
Plz help me out guys!!!!!

Last edited by Soumyadeep (2009-09-15 05:16:04)

ngoonee

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Re: [SOLVED]no 5.1 channel o/p in pulseaudio

http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/FAQ

Always search google .

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Soumyadeep

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Re: [SOLVED]no 5.1 channel o/p in pulseaudio

Nope did that too (default-sample-channel=6) but no luck, btw my amixer o/p is like dis
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 65536
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 65536 [100%] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 65536 [100%] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch cswitch-joined
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 65536
  Front Left: Capture 51337 [78%] [off]
  Front Right: Capture 51337 [78%] [off]

ngoonee

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Re: [SOLVED]no 5.1 channel o/p in pulseaudio

You may want to search specifically for pulseaudio info on your board, or take this to their ML. As I can recall, lots of issues are to do with alsa's drivers rather than pulse itself.

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Soumyadeep

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Re: [SOLVED]no 5.1 channel o/p in pulseaudio

Well finally got it working!!! There's a chanel select option in alsamixer which is set to 2 by default, so changed it 6, can't believe i missed it!

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Re: [SOLVED]no 5.1 channel o/p in pulseaudio

Good to hear.

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