Should Smart 5.1 be renamed Stupid 5.1?

My volume display in Kicker says 0%. I click on it and it says, instead
of kmix, Smart 5.1. I suspect master channel hasn’t been set so I set
it. No change; it still says 0% and the channel is “digital” and not
“master front.” I suspect it will change after reboot but no luck. Still
on “digital,” 0%, and now the master channel is not set again.

Apart from that, sound seems to be working - for now - and responding to
volume set in “master front” so perhaps I’d best leave sleeping dogs lie
and just ignore Stupid 5.1?


Graham Davis, Bracknell, Berks.
openSUSE 11.4 (64-bit); KDE 4.7.3; AMD Phenom II X2 550 Processor;
Video: nVidia GeForce 210 (using nVidia driver);
Sound: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA); Wireless: BCM4306