From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 2 10:35:51 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCD3D106564A for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2010 10:35:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mavbsd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f223.google.com (mail-fx0-f223.google.com [209.85.220.223]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A0A88FC20 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2010 10:35:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm23 with SMTP id 23so74205fxm.3 for ; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:35:47 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=c+dIpsw6ia5vyzIRfC5nf6pHCTgLMK4wYkokgOuoijQ=; b=deFzpEf+dx1BqlFRntGbPgvMV6kJZiuAEgxDN/0q3r+Ke8a1mA4p1TYZUYZkH9LCw2 V0De3eo55U1ETmOa4EKMwS88//B6/C/k7XXpOf7Nj5feyQXe5pzsjl/GU8oVi4uJuFoJ 36u7M14XohNRGgtypdocLhNF50kJ8mopSogDA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=tKPuTnrR3G3u4UnA9FFdWQA7n48RUsU4d9YEmbC2KJL8AgHlYs6VbB65EjbhIklPUR VbsRsHQBujiZRkLRkwe4bxyCb6M6nP0TOyGrZOhR9nF+HTCplbL5gtVGAWDCM1fkpXzR ivHxfhWRf8aoBx2Emy9qf6eOzpWUhlnT5MN10= Received: by 10.223.6.66 with SMTP id 2mr6434639fay.61.1267526147779; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:35:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from mavbook.mavhome.dp.ua (pc.mavhome.dp.ua [212.86.226.226]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 16sm2791800fxm.3.2010.03.02.02.35.46 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:35:46 -0800 (PST) Sender: Alexander Motin Message-ID: <4B8CEA00.70709@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:35:44 +0200 From: Alexander Motin User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20091212) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" References: <1267521784.00224994.1267510802@10.7.7.3> <4B8CE259.6020903@FreeBSD.org> <4B8CE89A.2020402@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4B8CE89A.2020402@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Correct settings for ATI SB700 HDAC 5.1 config X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:35:51 -0000 Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > Alexander Motin wrote: >> I don't see problems in your pin configuration. Make sure you have >> enabled 5.1/7.1 mixing in vchans using dev.pcm.0.play.vchanformat sysctl. >> > after playing with it for a while I got all the front speakers to play > but none of the back ones (could this because one of the back ones is > inoprative [the connector is physically broken]) Are you sure you are playing multichannel audio stream? Sound system doesn't do any up-mixing now. You should try to play, for example, some video with AC3 or DTS multichannel audio stream with mplayer, specifying it to do full 5.1 output with `-channels 6` option. -- Alexander Motin