[alsa-devel] wrong channel mappings for HDMI audio

[Dan Christensen]

Clemens Ladisch <clemens at 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