On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 2:21 AM, Niels Weber <nathelbiya@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Replying to myself as I found something out... > > 2008/12/11 Niels Weber <nathelbiya@xxxxxxxxx>: >> 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#IhaveasurroundsoundcardbutPulseAudiousesjustthefrontspeakers > > "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 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
