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Hey guys, I have Linux Suse 10.1 and I can't seem to get my 5.1 to work. When I unmute my rear speakers you can hear them turning on and ...
  1. 11-19-2006 #1
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    Help with 5.1 Sound

    Hey guys, I have Linux Suse 10.1 and I can't seem to get my 5.1 to work. When I unmute my rear speakers you can hear them turning on and off, but nothing seems to come through them. Any ideas or help? I'm new to Linux so I'm not sure if I need to get anything extra to make it work. So any help right now would be much appreciated. thanks
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    Assuming your system uses ALSA, you should get full surround if you tell your apps to use the surround51 plugin. For apps that let you specify a sound driver, put alsa:plug:surround51 as the driver name.

    There may be a way to set that plugin as the default driver in your asoundrc file; search the Web for alsa docs and/or examples related to surround.
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    ok, I started messing around with Alsa (yes my system uses it), but I still can't seem to get it to work properly. I've been browsing threads left and right trying to get this to work and nothing is lookin to work, not even echoing the front speakers to the rear. I'm not sure if this has anything to do with it, but my surround system uses 3 different plugs for it and not just the 1 green one. Does that make a differenece?
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    A 3-plug system shouldn't give you any trouble. My Logitech speakers use 3 plugs, going into my SoundBlaster, and I've had 5.1 surround on them since I learned about the surround51 plugin.

    One tool I found handy when getting 5.1 working was speaker-test. There's a short usage guide here at alsa.opensource.org. There are also other potentially useful guides at that site.

    What apps are you trying to get working with surround?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zelmo
    A 3-plug system shouldn't give you any trouble. My Logitech speakers use 3 plugs, going into my SoundBlaster, and I've had 5.1 surround on them since I learned about the surround51 plugin.

    One tool I found handy when getting 5.1 working was speaker-test. There's a short usage guide here at alsa.opensource.org. There are also other potentially useful guides at that site.

    What apps are you trying to get working with surround?
    Well anything actually. I know I'm trying to just get an echo in XMMS, but even my DVD's don't play in Surround I have logitech speakers as well

    Forgive me for sounding like a newbie, the speaker test didn't work, and I even went to my ALSA directory... It keeps telling me there is no such directory
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