The service manual (link I posted earlier has PDF for download) has this.
pg14 says:  External 7.1CH Audio Output Supported by Headphone, Microphone, 
Line-In and [spdif]Surround-Out Jacks 
pg15 says:  HDA compliant, S/PDIF digital output, five speakers, one subwoofer, 
built-in mic, THX TruStudio Pro 
pg17 shows four jacks as circle#2/3/4/5 -- currently I do not have anything 
plugged into these jacks 
pg17 shows frontLeft/frontRight as circle#1 -- these are 2W speakers (and work 
well) 
pg16 shows rearLeft/rearRight as circle#3 -- these are 1.5W speakers (and seem 
too quiet... when they are exercised at all by testing so far) 
pg19 shows subwoofer as circle#1 -- this is the 2W subwoof (I have never got 
this to produce any noise, I'm reasonably certain) 
Not shown explicitly in the manual... but known to alsamixer and produces good 
volume... is the 'Center' speaker, also 2W.  Methinks this one is under the 
touchpad/palmrest area, which is close enough to the frontLeft/frontRight 
speakers that it might be hard for me to tell it was working, as opposed to, 
say, pulseaudio driving frontLeft at 50% and frontRight at 50% to 'simulate' a 
center-channel-speaker.  

Reseller page over here gives wattages -- 
http://xoticpcforums.com/showthread.php?12026-Sager-NP8180-%28Clevo-P180HM%29-Owners-Lounge
Audio specs:  THX TruStudio Pro 5.1 HD audio with two 1.5W, three 2W speakers, 
and one 2W sub-woofer 

"Raymond:  To setup your system for   [external]   5.1 or 7.1 surround
sound you will need to connect the audio cables to the Headphone-Out,
Line-In, Microphone-In jack and S/PDIF-Out jacks (note: the S/PDIF jack
is used for 7.1 surround sound only)."

I believe that is correct for *external* speakers, but I have not used
the laptop that way, yet.  In all my tests so far, I have only been
using the 5.1 onboard speakers, not external speakers.  Well,
correction:  I have plugged some simple one-jack headphones into the
hdfon jack, to see if that did the right thing; it seemed fine.  (Some
other alc892 systems have trouble muting and/or re-enabling the internal
speakers when you plug and unplug headphones using the hdfon-jack.)
Finally, note that there is a third audio-system potentially involved
here, which is hdmi-out -- the videocard has a separate audio-chipset
for that purpose, which I have not tested.

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  pulseaudio does not recognize internal speakers [P180HMx, Realtek
  ALC892, Speaker, Internal] volume slider problem

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