I see this behaviour. I have an optical hookup to an amp with 5.1 speakers, but I can only do a 2 speaker test. I don't have any way of easily telling if this is a flaw in speaker-test or if surround is really not supported.
** Changed in: pulseaudio (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- SPDIF on hda-intel does not support more than two channels https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/236372 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs