I have my openSUSE 11.3 is a Creative X-Fi USB connected. At the X-Fi is a vicious directly E100 5.1 sound system via RCA 6x, without SPDIF / Opt / Coax. The sound itself works, but only with stereo, front only front L and R are having the sound. Whether VLC, Mplayer, Kaffeine, the OS itself, or games, all just 2 channels (all audio configurations have all been tried out). VLC and MPlayer have also launched direct with surround 5.1 but still it is not working. The only exception: If I do a test ALSA directly and specify that it is 6 channels involved, this works correctly with 5.1:
speaker-test-c6-Dplug: surround51-t wav-l1
The way I understand it, all 5.1 Surround configurations for SPDIF-intended and not directly analogous. The same applies to all asound.conf 's that I have found. How to configure my ALSA (or the app's) so that it uses 5.1 analog without SPDIF?
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