Re: [Alsa-user] Downmixing 5.1 to 2.1 with Xonar D1 card?

[Chris R. <ran...@ya...>]

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> Replace "plughw:0" with "dmix:0".  This will give you the two channels
> of the standard dmix device; if you want to output four channels, you
> also have to redefine the dmix device used by "default".

Aha! I think my problem is that my "default" device is type "pulse", and is not "dmix:0" at all.
Now that I've modified my /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/99-pulseaudio-default.conf file so that
"default" is not type "pulse", the "default" can share with my "51to21" device quite happily.

Cheers,
Chris