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From: Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: wrong channel mappings for HDMI audio
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:16:02 -0500
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Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> writes:

> Dan Christensen wrote:
>> When I try to use 5.1 audio over HDMI, the front left and front right
>> channels are correct, but the others are wrong:
>> ...
>> asound.conf:
>> 
>> pcm.!default {
>> type hw
>> card 0
>> device 3
>> }
>
> With this definition, you are disabling ALSA's channel mapping.
...
> or just tell you applications to use the device "hdmi".

I get exactly the same problem if I do

  speaker-test -c6 -twav -Dhdmi

Any other suggestions?

Dan