On 22/07/10 16:10, James Bensley wrote:
My motherboard has onboard sound (how original!), it's a Foxconn ELA (ICH10 I believe).
It has a digital out but in Ubuntu 10.04 I can only get stereo out no surround out? The box used to be dual boot with Windows and under Windows I could get my much loved 5.1 kit a 5.1 feed out from the box but now it cries in stereo.
Sounds like you are hitting this bug
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/520157
I don't run a Surround setup here so I have no idea if the suggested workarounds fix this