[Alsa-user] Number of channels

This is probably a stupid question, but... I have noticed that speaker-test defaults (with no -c parameter) to one channel. Is this really the optimum default? If I recall, in times past, it used to cycle through all of the channels. Now, I just get left front over and over again (in mono, which

[Alsa-user] how to set up surround soun

Everything works perfectly in ordinary stereo (two channel) mode. But, $ aplay -L null Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture) default:CARD=MID HDA Intel MID, ALC889 Analog Default Audio Device sysdefault:CARD=MID HDA Intel MID, ALC889