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From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Pulseaudio - Asus Xonar STX II 7.1 - 5.1 Surround - Front audio is coming from rear speakers in Firefox
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 17:25:51
Message-Id: 1A300E6E-162C-4CFD-A279-C3D9716B6B23@antarean.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Pulseaudio - Asus Xonar STX II 7.1 - 5.1 Surround - Front audio is coming from rear speakers in Firefox by Jochen Kirchner
1 On January 27, 2017 5:26:15 PM GMT+01:00, Jochen Kirchner <jk@×××.photography> wrote:
2 >
3 >
4 >On 01/27/2017 05:15 PM, Jochen Kirchner wrote:
5 >>
6 >> Hi fellow gentoo'ers,
7 >>
8 >>
9 >> I'm running XFCE with pulseaudio.
10 >>
11 >> Hardware is Asus Xonar STX II with the 7.1 daughterboard
12 >>
13 >> Analog Surround 5.1 is selected in xfce4-volumed-pulse.
14 >>
15 >> If I do speaker-test -c 6 all is right. Front audio is put through
16 >the
17 >> front speakers.
18 >>
19 >> But if I play sound in Firefox and/or Chromium (eg. youtube) the
20 >sound
21 >> is mainly coming through the rear speakers.
22 >>
23 >> Any advice? If you need more info please let me know, thanks!
24 >>
25 >>
26 >> Kind Regards,
27 >>
28 >> Jochen
29 >>
30 >
31 >I'm running systemd if that matters!
32 >
33 >emerge --info
34 >http://pastebin.com/4C9AcGhs
35 >
36 >emerge -pv pulseaudio
37 >[ebuild R ] media-sound/pulseaudio-9.0::gentoo USE="X alsa
38 >alsa-plugin asyncns caps gdbm glib gtk ipv6 orc ssl systemd tcpd udev
39 >webrtc-aec -bluetooth -dbus -doc -equalizer -gnome -jack (-libressl)
40 >-libsamplerate -lirc -native-headset (-neon) -ofono-headset (-oss) -qt4
41 >-realtime (-selinux) -sox (-system-wide) {-test} -xen -zeroconf"
42 >ABI_X86="32 (64) (-x32)" 0 KiB
43
44 I don't think systemd matters in this case.
45
46 I would expect some config setting for 'normal' stereo sound forcing it to the rear speakers.
47
48 --
49 Joost
50 --
51 Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.