For me using pacmd doesn't work. The workarround that worked for me is to restart pulseaudio as suggested in comment #13. Then all the different audio profiles appears in both pacmd and the gnome control panel as expected.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to alsa-driver in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/535476 Title: CM106 usb sound card incorrectly detected as stereo only Status in “alsa-driver” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: My usb CM106 card is 5.1 capable but pavucontrol and gnome-volume- control will only let me set it as if it was a stereo device. - On another computer running ubuntu 9.10 (a desktop with an onboard ICH9 surround card), this is correctly recognized as 5.1 capable, no matter what system account I am using (so it's not a configuration issue) - On a third computer, a laptop with onboard stereo, this usb sound card exhibits the same problem: it is recognized only as stereo. ProblemType: Bug AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21. Architecture: i386 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC1: jeff 1115 F.... pulseaudio /dev/snd/controlC0: jeff 1115 F.... pulseaudio /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c: jeff 1115 F...m pulseaudio Card0.Amixer.info: Card hw:0 'ICH6'/'Intel ICH6 with AD1981B at irq 22' Mixer name : 'Analog Devices AD1981B' Components : 'AC97a:41445374' Controls : 26 Simple ctrls : 18 Card1.Amixer.info: Card hw:1 'default'/'USB Sound Device at usb-0000:00:1d.1-2, full speed' Mixer name : 'USB Mixer' Components : 'USB0d8c:0102' Controls : 14 Simple ctrls : 6 Date: Tue Mar 9 21:39:12 2010 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100113) Package: alsa-base 1.0.22.1+dfsg-0ubuntu3 PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: LANG=en_CA.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.25-generic SourcePackage: alsa-driver Symptom: audio Title: Soundcard not detected Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic i686 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/535476/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
