Comments on: Enable 5.1 Surround Sound on Linux – Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy

By: UbuntuLinuxHelp

UbuntuLinuxHelp — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:01:45 +0000

@brian

Hmmm… That is strange. Pulsaudio using 5.1 surround is working for me on Ubuntu 9.04, 9.10, 10.04 using Audigy 2 ZS. In my case I’ve not had to install extra packages. (Also, this is on a Shuttle box with the Audigy card added into the PCI slot).

As a side note… 10.04 has had the best hardware support for me so far!

By: brian

brian — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:55:41 +0000

This may be a little late but I have also found that I have to either install gnome-alsamixer and make sure that the digital/analogue is ticked because for what ever reason Pulse audio mutes the sound card… I have had to do it on Audigy 4 and the Audigy 2 zs.

By: Risu

Risu — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:35:46 +0000

Excellent share!! I was using Hardy for last 2yrs and since last week my surround volume disappeared on acer 5920. After hours of googling i landed here and the catch was with pulseaudio… oh now i can relax for a while ..

By: Sarim Khan

Sarim Khan — Fri, 14 May 2010 15:33:34 +0000

I found this way in many site by google. but this is not working in my INTEL DG 31 PR motherboard’s internel REALTEC sound. AND I am using ubuntu lucid 10.04

I need help . plz.

By: X

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 03:36:54 +0000

Amazing! Thanks for the effort man, it worked like a charm!

Just have to add WAVE Front, Center and LFE on my pc.

By: Otome

Otome — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 04:38:15 +0000

you don’t need to restart the computer. I enable “disable-lfe-remixing = no”

By: Heron Anzures

Heron Anzures — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:57:56 +0000

Thank you very much, after hours of trying stuff, this did the trick

By: Ceolwulf

Ceolwulf — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:34:16 +0000

Thanks very much for your advice. Have now got my surround sound working in linux

By: Lupu

Lupu — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:44:23 +0000

same problem like vancleef…. i used sudo gedit /etc/pulse/daemon.conf and ai changed ” ; default-sample-channels = 2″ with “; default-sample-channels = 6″ but still only front chanel…
* PCM Center
* PCM Front
* PCM LFE
* PCM Side
* PCM Surround

not foud it…. any other solution to use all my 5+1 Chanels???

By: UbuntuLinuxHelp

UbuntuLinuxHelp — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:57:52 +0000

@vancleef

Did you try selecting the corresponding tracks without PCM?
Are you using PulseAudio?
Did you also configure your media player to use 5.1 surround sound?
Did you check the hardware itself? (Cards and cable).

If so, the issue may be how the speakers are plugged in. (I had to change where they were plugged in a couple of times).