[Touch-packages] [Bug 1371963] [NEW] cannot set default audio device with alsa (pulse audio disabled, can only get audio to work in VLC)

Public bug reported: Not very literate in Linux, had to disable Pulse Audio to get 5.1 sound to work. VLC will playback audio just fine by selecting sound card within the application. No/incorrect default sound card for system, cannot change through Gnome ALSA mixer. ProblemType: Bug

Re: [Touch-packages] [Bug 1371963] Re: cannot set default audio device with alsa (pulse audio disabled, can only get audio to work in VLC)

I got it working. The issue was with the spdif optical output on my secondary audio card. Pulse audio initially would not output 5.1 so I disabled it and tried ALSA. I was then able to output 5.1 in VLC but I was not able to get any audio to output elsewhere. After trying multiple ALSA mixers to