I think my previous post wasn't detailed enough, my apologies, I was really disappointed.
So, lspci -vvv shows about the card: 00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07) Subsystem: Creative Labs SBLive! 5.1 Model SB0100 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 248 (500ns min, 5000ns max) Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 18 Region 0: I/O ports at e000 [size=32] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- alsamixer -c 2 shows the propper mixer channels like Master,PCM,Surrond,Center,LFE,Wave Center,Wave LFE,Wave Surround etc. I set them to maximal volume. Here is the output of mplayer, but only the parts regarding to audio: .... Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52 dec_audio: Allocating 3840 bytes for input buffer. dec_audio: Allocating 18432 + 65536 = 83968 bytes for output buffer. AC3: 5.1 (3f+2r+lfe) 48000 Hz 448.0 kbit/s A52 flags before a52_frame: 0x37 A52 flags after a52_frame: 0x17 AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 6 ch, s16le, 448.0 kbit/9.72% (ratio: 56000->576000) ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=448000 ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000 ID_AUDIO_NCH=6 Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52) ========================================================================== Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/6ch/s16le -> 0Hz/0ch/??... [libaf] Adding filter resample [resample] Changing sample rate to 48000Hz [libaf] Adding filter volnorm [libaf] Removing filter resample alsa-init: requested format: 48000 Hz, 6 channels, 9 alsa-init: using ALSA 1.0.13 alsa-init: device set to surround51 alsa-init: using device hw:2 alsa-init: pcm opend in blocking mode alsa-init: chunksize set to 1024 alsa-init: fragcount=16 alsa-init: got buffersize=65536 alsa-init: got period size 1024 alsa: 48000 Hz/2 channels/4 bpf/65536 bytes buffer/Signed 16 bit Little Endian AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) AO: Description: ALSA-0.9.x-1.x audio output AO: Author: Alex Beregszaszi, Zsolt Barat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> AO: Comment: under developement Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/6ch/s16le -> 48000Hz/2ch/s16le... [libaf] Adding filter channels [channels] Changing number of channels to 2 ID_AUDIO_CODEC=a52 ... In my speakers I can hear only the rear channels. But if I start mplayer without the channels=6 option all of my speakers works but only in stereo. What should I do? -- Sound Blaster Live! works only in stereo https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/141102 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs