[22:53] <pointydrip> hello, I have a alsa/soundcard problem: in sound preferences>hardware it shows my card "SB Live! EMUk101" but it says "1 output" when the card has 3 speaker outputs (among others) and is meant for 5.1 surround...the problem is I have an old set of Dell 5.1's to go with the card, but they it is somewhat useless if I cannot match the channels
[22:59] <pointydrip> I have done a fair deal of trial and error with the "profile setting" in sound preferences and notice that I am able to get 2 of the output channels to work on seeminglingly random settings
[23:00] <pointydrip> also downloaded the sound card manual and the connections are not the problem
[23:06] <Unit193> Have you looked in pavucontrol?
[23:09] <Unit193> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SurroundSound or http://alsa.opensrc.org/SurroundSound ?
[23:10] <pointydrip> thanks there's some good points in there I haven't tried...
[23:11] <Unit193> And directly: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Advanced_Linux_Sound_Architecture#Upmixing
[23:12] <pointydrip> okay thx ...I have some work to do!
[23:13] <Unit193> (Links mainly due to me not having surround sound. :P )