Hi, > > > The issue is that speaker-test doesn't play sound to the correct speaker. > > > If > > > I run: > > > > > > ~$ speaker-test -Dplug:surround51 -c6 -s3 -f75 > > > > > > The sound comes from (Center), (Front right), (Rear left) and (Rear right) > > > speakers instead (Front right) only. > > > > What's bothering me is that you get sound from multiple speakers while > > instructing out on only one. > > > > The usual issues of these setups with surround analog out are: > > - channel mapping issues (driver/hardware mismatch) > > - software downmixing to stereo > > > > There are other usual issues with surrount digital out but this is not > > your setup. > > > > You can have a look at [1] for software fixes on this. > > > > [1] https://alsa.opensrc.org/SurroundSound > > The link you posted it shows rather outdated fixes, it talked about Jackd > daemon and surround, but I have pulseaudio daemon, maybe I've pulseaudio > daemon misconfiguration
My understanding is that pulseaudio uses alsa for kernel interface and that speaker-test uses alsa directly. So if one cannot get speaker-test to sound right, it cannot work with pulseaudio. That why I suggest workarounds in alsa conf (asoundrc). Alex
