5.1 Surround Sound not working on Fresh install

Desktop Environments Gnome
28

@Christopher67
There is also a pipewire-alsa package so i don’t know where that fits in? It seems to me that everything is sort of intertwined so to speak. This is my current audio output on anew install of kde.

Audio:     Device-1: AMD Ellesmere HDMI Audio [Radeon RX 470/480 / 570/580/590] vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel
           v: kernel bus-ID: 2d:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:aaf0 class-ID: 0403
           Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel
           v: kernel bus-ID: 2f:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487 class-ID: 0403
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.6-arch2-1 running: yes
           Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no
           Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: no
           Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.40 running: yes

In the alsa settings you can actually specify the 5.1 audio according to the Arch wiki. I don’t know some apps may choose independently audio output also? :man_shrugging:

1 Like