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Date:      Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:35:44 +0200
From:      Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Correct settings for ATI SB700 HDAC 5.1 config
Message-ID:  <4B8CEA00.70709@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <4B8CE89A.2020402@gmail.com>
References:  <1267521784.00224994.1267510802@10.7.7.3> <4B8CE259.6020903@FreeBSD.org> <4B8CE89A.2020402@gmail.com>

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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



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