Only what I’ve shared already. From what you’ve posted so far…it is surround sound that isn’t working? Stereo sound (via headphones and monitor speakers) does work?
FYI, Headphones, I couldn’t find them and the tiny ones as well.
Here some images that will help.
If use the above settings SBZ disappears in playback and output devices. As you can see.
If I launch PAV, and switch to SBZ on playback. I get no sound. Sound configuration–> sbz defaults to ‘digital stereo’. If I change that, on all the other tabs sbz disappears.
I edited a system file, noted in this website:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PulseAudio/Examples#Surround_sound_systems
Surround sound systems
Many people have a surround sound card, but have speakers for just two channels, so PulseAudio cannot really default to a surround sound setup. To enable all of the channels, edit `/etc/pulse/daemon.conf`: uncomment the default-sample-channels line (i.e. remove the semicolon from the beginning of the line) and set the value to **6**. For a *5.1* setup, or **8** for a *7.1* setup etc.
default-sample-channels=6
You have to restart alsa sound, but I couldn’t find a simple answer. So, I just rebooted. This had no effect. Also, I checked to see if pulseaudio was running, it wasn’t running, I guess I did the right command.
I’m learning about surround sound as we chat.
Command line ‘alsamixer’, switching to sbz, showed all channels at about 70%. Still no sound.
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Also, I have the high quality microphone that came with ‘soundblaster z’. So, I can run tests with the microphone plugged into the pci sound card.
I may find or buy cheap headphones to plug into the sound card later, if I can’t find the other set.
FYI…
Yes, and you have specified surround sound in that instance. We know that has problems, but does that sound card provide working stereo sound output when the configuration is chosen. That is the question.
I haven’t seen any evidence online that this sound card is supported with respect to surround sound. That would need yet another bug report IMHO.
PAV → configuration
If it is set at the default, ‘Digital Stereo’. Playing ‘summer rain’ (1h).
PAV – > playback → set to sbz
No sound.
FYI, I found an article about someone reverse engineering the windows driver.
Links to
---------->bug report.
I tried plugging my headphone into the sound card jack. Yes, I made sure it was the right jack.
No effect, I raised the volume very high (120%) and silence.
So, this topic is closed. I’ll post on here, if it’s ever fixed.
Thanks to all for the help. I have most of the webpages archived.