Missing surrounnd71 profile in sound

[ocgltd]

I just wiped out my F10 system and install F12. I had 7.1 audio working great on F10, but I can't seems to get it in F12.

My lspci shows:

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)

and aplay -L shows:

null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
default:CARD=Intel
    HDA Intel, ALC882 Analog
    Default Audio Device
front:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC882 Analog
    Front speakers
surround40:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC882 Analog
    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC882 Analog
    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC882 Analog
    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC882 Analog
    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC882 Analog
    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC882 Digital
    IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output

So it looks like a surround71 config exists (if i understand this right). alsamixer also shows 8 channels, and I can edit each channel.

BUT, in the Gnome GUI, Preferences | sounds, I don't have a surround 7.1 profile (only surround 5.1). How do I tell linux/gnome to use 7.1?

Thanks!
MD

[BugRocks1]

In Sound preferrences -> hardware -> Settings for the selected device, choose the 7.1 profile.

---------- Post added at 10:52 PM CDT ---------- Previous post was at 08:57 PM CDT ----------

Check if you do have the profiles listed in pulseaudio with:

pactl list | grep -iA30 profiles

---------- Post added at 10:55 PM CDT ---------- Previous post was at 10:52 PM CDT ----------

Also since is Fedora 11 I realized the gnome-volume-control maybe is not yet integrated with pulseaudio so you will need to download pavucontrol to do the profile change.

yum install pavucontrol

---------- Post added at 10:57 PM CDT ---------- Previous post was at 10:55 PM CDT ----------

I just wiped out my F10 system and install F12. I had 7.1 audio working great on F10, but I can't seems to get it in F11.

I'm assuming F11 but really don't know if you were talking about F12 LoL

[ocgltd]

Ok, there is no Surround71 profile available...

Profiles:
output:analog-stereo: Analog Stereo Output (sinks: 1, sources: 0, priority. 6000)
output:analog-stereo+input:analog-stereo: Analog Stereo Duplex (sinks: 1, sources: 1, priority. 6060)
output:analog-stereo+input:iec958-stereo: Analog Stereo Output + Digital Stereo (IEC958) Input (sinks: 1, sources: 1, priority. 6055)
output:analog-surround-40: Analog Surround 4.0 Output (sinks: 1, sources: 0, priority. 700)
output:analog-surround-40+input:analog-stereo: Analog Surround 4.0 Output + Analog Stereo Input (sinks: 1, sources: 1, priority. 760)
output:analog-surround-40+input:iec958-stereo: Analog Surround 4.0 Output + Digital Stereo (IEC958) Input (sinks: 1, sources: 1, priority. 755)
output:analog-surround-41: Analog Surround 4.1 Output (sinks: 1, sources: 0, priority. 800)
output:analog-surround-41+input:analog-stereo: Analog Surround 4.1 Output + Analog Stereo Input (sinks: 1, sources: 1, priority. 860)
output:analog-surround-41+input:iec958-stereo: Analog Surround 4.1 Output + Digital Stereo (IEC958) Input (sinks: 1, sources: 1, priority. 855)
output:analog-surround-50: Analog Surround 5.0 Output (sinks: 1, sources: 0, priority. 700)
output:analog-surround-50+input:analog-stereo: Analog Surround 5.0 Output + Analog Stereo Input (sinks: 1, sources: 1, priority. 760)
output:analog-surround-50+input:iec958-stereo: Analog Surround 5.0 Output + Digital Stereo (IEC958) Input (sinks: 1, sources: 1, priority. 755)
output:analog-surround-51: Analog Surround 5.1 Output (sinks: 1, sources: 0, priority. 800)
output:analog-surround-51+input:analog-stereo: Analog Surround 5.1 Output + Analog Stereo Input (sinks: 1, sources: 1, priority. 860)
output:analog-surround-51+input:iec958-stereo: Analog Surround 5.1 Output + Digital Stereo (IEC958) Input (sinks: 1, sources: 1, priority. 855)
output:iec958-stereo: Digital Stereo Duplex (IEC958) (sinks: 1, sources: 0, priority. 5500)
output:iec958-stereo+input:analog-stereo: Digital Stereo (IEC958) Output + Analog Stereo Input (sinks: 1, sources: 1, priority. 5560)
output:iec958-stereo+input:iec958-stereo: Digital Stereo (IEC958) Output + Digital Stereo (IEC958) Input (sinks: 1, sources: 1, priority. 5555)
input:analog-stereo: Analog Stereo Input (sinks: 0, sources: 1, priority. 60)
input:iec958-stereo: Digital Stereo (IEC958) Input (sinks: 0, sources: 1, priority. 55)
off: Off (sinks: 0, sources: 0, priority. 0)
Active Profile: output:analog-stereo+input:analog-stereo

Back to the same problem...why is there no Surround7.1 profile?

Thanks

[BugRocks1]

Wrong model auto detection maybe?

Is your sound card driver using the right model? 
    ‣ Add manually your sound card model to sound.conf in /etc/modprobe.d

# FIX ME there must be a better way to identify and correct wrong model identification in the driver modules.
    ‣ Getting the audio module in use:

lspci -v | grep -iA10 audio | grep modules

    ‣ Getting the driver's codec name:

cat /proc/asound/Intel/codec#0 | grep -i codec

• 1 - The path used in cat depends on your sound card, one can look inside /proc/asound to find out the exact path.

    ‣ Find the model list on http://git.alsa-project.org/ -> alsa-kmirror.git(tree) -> Documentation(tree) -> HD-Audio-Models.txt and check what model your hardware is compatible with.

    ‣ Create the file:

su -
echo 'options snd-hda-intel model=[model here]' > /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf

---------- Post added at 08:01 PM CDT ---------- Previous post was at 07:47 PM CDT ----------

You want to be looking for something like "7 stack" a.k.a. "7 jacks"

If you hardware is the ACL882 I don't think it has 7 jacks, did you count them?

http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-...9;hb=HEAD#l117

---------- Post added at 08:09 PM CDT ---------- Previous post was at 08:01 PM CDT ----------

Brief explanation of what the model parameter can do for you.

http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-...7;hb=HEAD#l139

[ocgltd]

Cool - I'm learning something new! I tried the only two options that made sense (6stack-dig and asus-p5q) for my Asus P5WD2-E Premium mobo.

Neither gave me the 7.1 option, but this feels like the right track. Still...I cant get 7.1 option in the pavucontrol or gnome sound applet.. where to from here?

(I have 6 jacks, running as 7.1/8 channel. So 4 jacks for output, 2 for input I guess)

Thanks,
MD

[BugRocks1]

Remove that file from before just to clean up things and don't have any surprises:

su -
rm /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf

Fallow these instructions from the pulseaudio FAQ.

I have a surround sound card, but PulseAudio uses just the front speakers!

Many people have a surround card, but have speakers for just two channels, so PulseAudio can't really default to a surround setup. To enable all the channels, edit /etc/pulse/daemon.conf: uncomment the default-sample-channels line (i.e. remove the semicolon from the beginning of the line) and set the value to 6 if you have a 5.1 setup, or 8 if you have 7.1 setup etc. After doing the edit, restart pulseaudio.

Source:
http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/FAQ#I...efrontspeakers

---------- Post added at 10:16 PM CDT ---------- Previous post was at 10:02 PM CDT ----------

Just checking after you created the sound.conf file you did reboot right?

[ocgltd]

Ok, did that but same result. The system refuses to show 7.1 as an option....