I have a related problem. I have an SB Live, which supports 4 channel output.
Pulseaudio chooses the output device "ALSA PCM on front:0 (ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback) via DMA" The "front:0" means that it will only play only on the front pair of speakers. If it used "default:0", it would play on all four. I've had to change all of my common apps to use ALSA output instead, which works around the problem. I've installed all the pulseaudio configuration tools from the repositories, but none give me the option to change this. I edited ~/.pulse/default.pa, and restarted, but nothing seems to have changed. I tried to run `pulseaudio -C`, to do "list-sinks", but it spits me back to the shell. -- The user cannot select sound card https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/229137 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs