On 01/28/2017 02:18 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 01/27/2017 06:15 PM, Jochen Kirchner wrote: >> Hi fellow gentoo'ers, >> >> >> I'm running XFCE with pulseaudio. >> >> Hardware is Asus Xonar STX II with the 7.1 daughterboard >> >> Analog Surround 5.1 is selected in xfce4-volumed-pulse. >> >> If I do speaker-test -c 6 all is right. Front audio is put through the >> front speakers. >> >> But if I play sound in Firefox and/or Chromium (eg. youtube) the sound >> is mainly coming through the rear speakers. >> >> Any advice? If you need more info please let me know, thanks! > > Run alsamixer (media-sound/alsa-utils). Press F6, select the Xonar and > look for a "Stereo Upmix" setting. > > Also, make sure you're using the "Virtuoso" kernel driver > (SND_VIRTUOSO), not the C-Media "Oxygen" one (SND_OXYGEN). The > Virtuoso driver should provide the correct mixer controls for Xonar > cards. > > (The Oxygen driver works too, since the Xonar cards use the Oxygen > chip, but it might not provide Xonar-specific mixer controls.) > >
Hi Nikos, that worked! "Front+Surround" was set at Stereo Upmix. I changed it to "Front" and now it works and sound is coming mainly from the front speakers. Thank you! Kind Regards, Jochen
