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Subject: Re: forcing two channel output
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on 28/08/2009 20:37 Alexander Motin said the following:
> Indeed. Your Codec is configured for 7.1 output, but snd_hda at this
> moment does not support more then two channels. So for historical reason
> it duplicates stereo output to every channel pair. I am going to look at
> this again after 8.0 release.


Cool! I hope you will have time for this.
It would be nice to auto-configure number of channels based on pin sense data.

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Andriy Gapon