Re: [Alsa-user] Multi-channel audio out of a Zotac ION over HDMI

[VDR U. <use...@gm...>]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Mark de Reeper <mar...@gm...> wrote:
> I give up, I have tried everything that I can find on this topic without any
> success.
>
> Getting audio out of HDMI was relatively simple but getting anything more
> than stereo is proving challenging. I have upgraded my Alsa
> dirvers/libs/utils to the latest release v1.0.21 so I have the latest NVidia
> HDA drivers which include 8ch support. I modified the code to change the
> Info string to be sure that 8ch was being used instead of the 2ch version
> (can be seen when doing an aplay -l)
>
> Under Linux I have used speaker-test -c6 -Dhdmi and XBMC, both only produce
> stereo from 5.1 based sources.
>
> I have tested this box with a install of Windows 7 RC and was able to get
> 5.1 audio so I am happy that it can work with my setup.

I know of at least 3 other people besides myself with the exact same
problem.  I hope it gets fixed soon!