On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 2:21 AM, Niels Weber <nathelbiya(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Replying to myself as I found something out...
2008/12/11 Niels Weber <nathelbiya(a)gmail.com>:
> So it seems that Pulseaudio is working after all... now I need only to
> find out how to get surround sound.
After looking into the PulseAudio FAQ, that was quite easy:
http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/FAQ#IhaveasurroundsoundcardbutPulseAudious...
"To enable all the channels, edit /etc/pulse/daemon.conf: uncomment
the default-sample-channels line (i.e. remove the semicolon from the
beginning of the line) and set the value to 6 if you have a 5.1 setup,
or 8 if you have 7.1 setup etc. After doing the edit, restart
pulseaudio."
That was all. Really easy compared to what I had to do back then to
get surround working with alsa alone on one of the older Fedoras
(which took me weeks).
Now, surround works even in Prey - which it didn't with my previous
setup (without PA under F8).
Niels
One thing I did was to copy default.pa and daemon.conf to ~/.pulse
before editing so the change wouldn't be system wide. Also, I wasn't
sure if those files might get overwritten during an update or
installed as .rpmnew or whatever.
Richard