Well did not ask a question but figured I would share my solution to my problem of getting the surround sound working on my Abit AV8 motherboard. The actual problem was no sound coming from the rear speakers when they were hooked up according to the colour coding of the wires. The solution use the speaker-test program to test your speakers with the command "speaker-test -c6 -Dsurround51:0" (without the quotes) if your board is anything like mine you will find that the sound for the base/center speakers will be coming out the rear speakers and for the rear they will be coming from the base/center speakers so you need to put the center/subwoofer wire in the rear right/left port and the rear right/left wire into the center/subwoofer port on the back of the mother board then when running the speaker-test command the sound should be coming from the proper speakers. The :0 on then end of the speaker-test command is for the first card in the system when using alsa most likely the default for anyone using only the on-board sound. To get sound from all the speakers using alsa you must unmute the Duplicate Front mixer setting which will give you sound on the front/rear right/left speakers you must also unmute then raise the volumes on the Surround, Center and LFE channels in the mixer of your choice. Hopefully this post will save someone some time in the future.
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