<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 10:44 AM, Hika van den Hoven <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hikavdh@gmail.com" target="_blank">hikavdh@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hoi Ashu,<br>
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Wednesday, March 8, 2017, 5:27:37 PM, you wrote:<br>
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> On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 9:47 AM, Karl Newman <<a href="mailto:newmank1@asme.org">newmank1@asme.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 6:50 AM, Ashu Desai <<a href="mailto:ashu.desai@gmail.com">ashu.desai@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 7:09 AM, Daryl McDonald <<a href="mailto:darylangela@gmail.com">darylangela@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Mar 7, 2017 11:23 PM, "Ashu Desai" <<a href="mailto:ashu.desai@gmail.com">ashu.desai@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 7:43 PM, Karl Newman <<a href="mailto:newmank1@asme.org">newmank1@asme.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 5:16 PM, Ashu Desai <<a href="mailto:ashu.desai@gmail.com">ashu.desai@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> So I checked and there is partial success. The audio now does come<br>
> out via HDMI. However, the 5.1 doesn't work. <br>
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> It somehow thinks only 3 speakers are attached. And so F-L plays on<br>
> F-L speaker. Center plays on F-L speaker. F-R plays on F-R speaker.<br>
> Rear-L plays on F-L speaker and Rear-R plays on F-R speaker. <br>
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> Pls help...!<br>
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> In the screen shot you showed it also had a selector for the number<br>
> of channels, which was set to 2 channels. Try toggling that and see<br>
> if it improves. Also, there is a command-line tool for alsa called<br>
> speaker-test which can help test your setup independent of MythTV.<br>
> Try it with "speaker-test -c 6" (the 6 is to indicate 6 channels).<br>
> You may also have to specify the device with -D.<br>
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> Sorry - but that didn't do anything.<br>
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> the speake-test did the exact same thing. The sound comes out of<br>
> center channel only when it thinks it's trying to go to rear and LFE.<br>
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> No sound comes at all via the rear speakers<br>
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> I think the speaker test was not supposed to be a solution in<br>
> itself but a way to quickly test wether a change that you've just<br>
> made in sound settings is better or worse.<br>
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> Yep - I meant that showed the same thing. No change there. <br>
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> So as it stands - the sound isn't coming out of any back speakers<br>
> and not coming out right from the front speakers.<br>
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> Are your receiver/amplifier settings correct *for that input*? Is<br>
> there any way to see how many channels your receiver thinks it is<br>
> getting from the HDMI? (Mine shows a diagram with the active speaker channels lit up).<br>
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> My receiver is set for HDMI - and the input shows all the channels.<br>
> the output diagram only shows the front ones - F-L, Center, F-R lit up<br>
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> And like I said - the center sound comes off the F-L, R-L comes off center, LFE comes off F-R, etc<br>
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> Is there any setting in alsa where it's supposed to be changed? Anywhere in drivers? <br>
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</div></div>Through amixer you can rearrange the layout of the speakers, but I<br>
have no real experience there. I think there was a thread somewhere in<br>
the past year about that.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Hika</div><div>I think THIS may be something that can be doing it! I have zero inkling but I will search around. The output look like this:</div><div><br></div><div>-----------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><div> amixer</div><div>Simple mixer control 'Master',0</div><div> Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined penum</div><div> Playback channels: Mono</div><div> Limits: Playback 0 - 64</div><div> Mono: Playback 61 [95%] [-3.00dB] [on]</div><div>Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0</div><div> Capabilities: pswitch penum</div><div> Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right</div><div> Mono:</div><div> Front Left: Playback [on]</div><div> Front Right: Playback [on]</div><div>Simple mixer control 'PCM',0</div><div> Capabilities: pvolume penum</div><div> Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right</div><div> Limits: Playback 0 - 255</div><div> Mono:</div><div> Front Left: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB]</div><div> Front Right: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB]</div><div>Simple mixer control 'Front',0</div><div> Capabilities: pvolume pswitch penum</div><div> Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right</div><div> Limits: Playback 0 - 64</div><div> Mono:</div><div> Front Left: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]</div><div> Front Right: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]</div><div>Simple mixer control 'Front Mic',0</div><div> Capabilities: pvolume pswitch penum</div><div> Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right</div><div> Limits: Playback 0 - 31</div><div> Mono:</div><div> Front Left: Playback 23 [74%] [0.00dB] [on]</div><div> Front Right: Playback 23 [74%] [0.00dB] [on]</div><div>Simple mixer control 'Front Mic Boost',0</div><div> Capabilities: volume penum</div><div> Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right</div><div> Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right</div><div> Limits: 0 - 3</div><div> Front Left: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]</div><div> Front Right: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]</div><div>Simple mixer control 'Surround',0</div><div> Capabilities: pvolume pswitch penum</div><div> Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right</div><div> Limits: Playback 0 - 64</div><div> Mono:</div><div> Front Left: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]</div><div> Front Right: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]</div><div>Simple mixer control 'Center',0</div><div> Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined penum</div><div> Playback channels: Mono</div><div> Limits: Playback 0 - 64</div><div> Mono: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]</div><div>Simple mixer control 'LFE',0</div><div> Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined penum</div><div> Playback channels: Mono</div><div> Limits: Playback 0 - 64</div><div> Mono: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]</div><div>Simple mixer control 'Line',0</div><div> Capabilities: pvolume pswitch penum</div><div> Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right</div><div> Limits: Playback 0 - 31</div><div> Mono:</div><div> Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [on]</div><div> Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [on]</div><div>Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0</div><div> Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum</div><div> Playback channels: Mono</div><div> Mono: Playback [on]</div><div>Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Default PCM',0</div><div> Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum</div><div> Playback channels: Mono</div><div> Mono: Playback [on]</div><div>Simple mixer control 'IEC958',1</div><div> Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum</div><div> Playback channels: Mono</div><div> Mono: Playback [on]</div><div>Simple mixer control 'Capture',0</div><div> Capabilities: cvolume cswitch penum</div><div> Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right</div><div> Limits: Capture 0 - 31</div><div> Front Left: Capture 9 [29%] [0.00dB] [on]</div><div> Front Right: Capture 9 [29%] [0.00dB] [on]</div><div>Simple mixer control 'Capture',1</div><div> Capabilities: cvolume cswitch penum</div><div> Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right</div><div> Limits: Capture 0 - 31</div><div> Front Left: Capture 9 [29%] [0.00dB] [off]</div><div> Front Right: Capture 9 [29%] [0.00dB] [off]</div><div>Simple mixer control 'Auto-Mute Mode',0</div><div> Capabilities: enum</div><div> Items: 'Disabled' 'Enabled'</div><div> Item0: 'Enabled'</div><div>Simple mixer control 'Channel Mode',0</div><div> Capabilities: enum</div><div> Items: '2ch' '4ch' '6ch'</div><div> Item0: '6ch'</div><div>Simple mixer control 'Input Source',0</div><div> Capabilities: cenum</div><div> Items: 'Rear Mic' 'Front Mic' 'Line'</div><div> Item0: 'Line'</div><div>Simple mixer control 'Input Source',1</div><div> Capabilities: cenum</div><div> Items: 'Rear Mic' 'Front Mic' 'Line'</div><div> Item0: 'Line'</div><div>Simple mixer control 'Rear Mic',0</div><div> Capabilities: pvolume pswitch penum</div><div> Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right</div><div> Limits: Playback 0 - 31</div><div> Mono:</div><div> Front Left: Playback 15 [48%] [-12.00dB] [on]</div><div> Front Right: Playback 15 [48%] [-12.00dB] [on]</div><div>Simple mixer control 'Rear Mic Boost',0</div><div> Capabilities: volume penum</div><div> Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right</div><div> Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right</div><div> Limits: 0 - 3</div><div> Front Left: 2 [67%] [20.00dB]</div><div> Front Right: 2 [67%] [20.00dB]</div><div>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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