Re: [alsa-devel] ALSA Multichannel through HDMI

Hi!

On 25.11.2010 06:12, John Ettedgui wrote:

I'm actually trying to get a 5.1 setup working without passthrough, if I use mplayer with passthrough my receiver behaves just fine, but I am trying to send the 6 channels from the computer.

I was actually told that the current ALSA driver for radeon's hdmi does not support more than 2 channels, and that would explain why I'm getting this behavior. Is that true though?

Yes.

However, strangely your log output seems to show the intel's hdmi parser being used instead:

ALSA sound/pci/hda/patch_intelhdmi.c:842: hdmi_setup_stream: NID=0x2, stream=0x1, new-format=0x11

Were you just trying some patch at the time?