Shami's Blog » 8.04 http://blog.al-shami.net A Mushroom A Day Keeps The Koopas Away Thu, 13 May 2010 06:15:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Surround sound under Ubuntu Hardy Heron http://blog.al-shami.net/index.php/surround-sound-under-ubuntu-hardy-heron/ http://blog.al-shami.net/index.php/surround-sound-under-ubuntu-hardy-heron/#comments Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:50:18 +0000 Mohammad Al-Shami http://blog.al-shami.net/?p=38 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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