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Surround sound under Ubuntu Hardy Heron

April 27th, 2008 Mohammad Al-Shami Leave a comment Go to comments

Been using Ubuntu Hardy Heron for about a month now, and I have to say it rocks, the best Desktop Linux so far.

Anyways, I have a Creative Audigy 2 card since I’m not a fan of software mixing under Linux, which is connected to an old creative 4.1 set. Since I don’t have any space I hooked only the front speakers and use the rear channels with a headset. After upgrading to Hardy I couldn’t get the headset to work. I just found the solution on the Ubuntu forums and thought I should document.

The new Ubuntu uses PulseAudio as it’s default sound engine, you can set volume levels for each application separately which is cool if you ask me. PulseAudio uses 2 channels by default. All you have to do is change:

; default-sample-channels = 2

To:

 default-sample-channels = 6

In /etc/pulse/daemon.conf, then restart gdm and you’re done

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  1. irshadcharm
    April 29th, 2008 at 09:10 | #1
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    hello bro,
    thanks for the info…but the thing is i do not have the permission to edit the daemon.conf file….even if i login as a super user its bugging me that i dont have the necessary permissions to rework the file….wat can be done?

  2. Mohammad Al-Shami
    May 9th, 2008 at 14:34 | #2
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    Hey man,

    Sorry for the late reply. Haven’t checked my blog in a couple of weeks. Anyways, you only need to:

    sudo vi /etc/pulse/daemon.conf

    Which should do it, that’s what I did.

  3. Ricardo Severo
    April 18th, 2009 at 02:17 | #3
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    Thanks man! Really helped! :D

  4. Mohammad Al-Shami
    April 25th, 2009 at 09:58 | #4
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    I’m glad it did :)

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