Re: How to enable surround 5.1 output on laptop

2009-12-10 Thread Alan Cox
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:22:09 +0100 Major Péter majorpe...@sch.bme.hu wrote: My Sound card is Intel ICH8, so I guess this means, that my card isn't supported. :( Should be (depends on the actual codec your vendor used) - more likely the problem is pulseaudio.

Re: How to enable surround 5.1 output on laptop

2009-12-10 Thread Richard Shaw
2009/12/9 Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com: On Wednesday 09 December 2009 21:53:51 Major Péter wrote: Hi, I have a Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop, which has two headphone output and one mic input, see picture: http://images.techtree.com/ttimages/story/87259_frontcombo.jpg On my winxp, I can

Re: How to enable surround 5.1 output on laptop

2009-12-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
Alan Cox wrote: On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:22:09 +0100 Major Péter majorpe...@sch.bme.hu wrote: My Sound card is Intel ICH8, so I guess this means, that my card isn't supported. :( Should be (depends on the actual codec your vendor used) - more likely the problem is pulseaudio.

Re: How to enable surround 5.1 output on laptop

2009-12-10 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 14:12:51 -0500, Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote: When ALSA first came out the channels could be changed in a GUI, now one must be root and edit text files to accomplish the same thing. And in a world where laptops are more common all the time, and better

How to enable surround 5.1 output on laptop

2009-12-09 Thread Major Péter
Hi, I have a Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop, which has two headphone output and one mic input, see picture: http://images.techtree.com/ttimages/story/87259_frontcombo.jpg On my winxp, I can do, that the left jack goes to the front speakers, the center jack goes to the center speaker, and the right

Re: How to enable surround 5.1 output on laptop

2009-12-09 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 22:53 +0100, Major Péter wrote: On my winxp, I can do, that the left jack goes to the front speakers, the center jack goes to the center speaker, and the right jack goes to the rear speakers and everything works great. This is a sound driver issue (ALSA). I have found

Re: How to enable surround 5.1 output on laptop

2009-12-09 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Wednesday 09 December 2009 21:53:51 Major Péter wrote: Hi, I have a Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop, which has two headphone output and one mic input, see picture: http://images.techtree.com/ttimages/story/87259_frontcombo.jpg On my winxp, I can do, that the left jack goes to the front

Re: How to enable surround 5.1 output on laptop

2009-12-09 Thread Major Péter
Thanks, but this is only good for people who has 5.1 sound card and wants to play all of the channels on their 2.0 speakers. 2009-12-09 23:15 keltezéssel, Marko Vojinovic írta: On Wednesday 09 December 2009 21:53:51 Major Péter wrote: Hi, I have a Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop, which has two

Re: How to enable surround 5.1 output on laptop

2009-12-09 Thread Major Péter
My Sound card is Intel ICH8, so I guess this means, that my card isn't supported. :( Thanks for the help Peter 2009-12-09 23:06 keltezéssel, Greg Woods írta: On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 22:53 +0100, Major Péter wrote: On my winxp, I can do, that the left jack goes to the front speakers, the

Re: How to enable surround 5.1 output on laptop

2009-12-09 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Thursday 10 December 2009 00:20:51 Major Péter wrote: 2009-12-09 23:15 keltezéssel, Marko Vojinovic írta: On Wednesday 09 December 2009 21:53:51 Major Péter wrote: Hi, I have a Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop, which has two headphone output and one mic input, see picture:

Re: How to enable surround 5.1 output on laptop

2009-12-09 Thread Major Péter
2009-12-10 04:21 keltezéssel, Marko Vojinovic írta: No, you misunderstood. Majority of people have only two speakers, so the *default* setup is to enable only front leftright channels for output. However, if you *do* have more speakers and want to enable all 6 channels for output, then you