Hi,
I cannot get the digital surround sound working. I used Mint before and there it was working fine.
What I have done; made modifications to /etc/pulse/default.pa and /etc/pulse/daemon.conf. In addition, I made .asoundrc file in my home folder.
I installed alsa-lib-a52pcm by instructions from here: AUR (en) - alsa-lib-a52pcm .
daemon.conf:
## Configuration file for the PulseAudio daemon. See pulse-daemon.conf(5) for
## more information. Default values are commented out. Use either ; or # for
## commenting.
; daemonize = no
; fail = yes
; allow-module-loading = yes
; allow-exit = yes
; use-pid-file = yes
; system-instance = no
; local-server-type = user
; enable-shm = yes
; enable-memfd = yes
; shm-size-bytes = 0 # setting this 0 will use the system-default, usually 64 MiB
; lock-memory = no
; cpu-limit = no
; high-priority = yes
; nice-level = -11
; realtime-scheduling = yes
; realtime-priority = 5
; exit-idle-time = 20
; scache-idle-time = 20
; dl-search-path = (depends on architecture)
; load-default-script-file = yes
; default-script-file = /etc/pulse/default.pa
; log-target = auto
; log-level = notice
; log-meta = no
; log-time = no
; log-backtrace = 0
; resample-method = speex-float-1
; avoid-resampling = false
; enable-remixing = yes
; remixing-use-all-sink-channels = yes
; enable-lfe-remixing = no
; lfe-crossover-freq = 0
flat-volumes = no
; flat-volumes = yes
; rlimit-fsize = -1
; rlimit-data = -1
; rlimit-stack = -1
; rlimit-core = -1
; rlimit-as = -1
; rlimit-rss = -1
; rlimit-nproc = -1
; rlimit-nofile = 256
; rlimit-memlock = -1
; rlimit-locks = -1
; rlimit-sigpending = -1
; rlimit-msgqueue = -1
; rlimit-nice = 31
; rlimit-rtprio = 9
; rlimit-rttime = 200000
; default-sample-format = s16le
default-sample-rate = 48000
; alternate-sample-rate = 48000
default-sample-channels = 6
default-channel-map = front-left,front-right,rear-left,rear-right,front-center,lfe
; default-fragments = 4
; default-fragment-size-msec = 25
; enable-deferred-volume = yes
; deferred-volume-safety-margin-usec = 8000
; deferred-volume-extra-delay-usec = 0
default.pa:
# This startup script is used only if PulseAudio is started per-user
# (i.e. not in system mode)
.fail
### Automatically restore the volume of streams and devices
load-module module-device-restore
load-module module-stream-restore
load-module module-card-restore
### Automatically augment property information from .desktop files
### stored in /usr/share/application
load-module module-augment-properties
### Should be after module-*-restore but before module-*-detect
load-module module-switch-on-port-available
### Load audio drivers statically
### (it's probably better to not load these drivers manually, but instead
### use module-udev-detect -- see below -- for doing this automatically)
#load-module module-alsa-sink
#load-module module-alsa-source device=hw:1,0
#load-module module-oss device="/dev/dsp" sink_name=output source_name=input
#load-module module-oss-mmap device="/dev/dsp" sink_name=output source_name=input
#load-module module-null-sink
#load-module module-pipe-sink
### Automatically load driver modules depending on the hardware available
.ifexists module-udev-detect.so
load-module module-udev-detect
.else
### Use the static hardware detection module (for systems that lack udev support)
load-module module-detect
.endif
### Automatically connect sink and source if JACK server is present
.ifexists module-jackdbus-detect.so
.nofail
load-module module-jackdbus-detect channels=2
.fail
.endif
### Automatically load driver modules for Bluetooth hardware
.ifexists module-bluetooth-policy.so
load-module module-bluetooth-policy
.endif
.ifexists module-bluetooth-discover.so
load-module module-bluetooth-discover
.endif
### Load several protocols
load-module module-dbus-protocol
.ifexists module-esound-protocol-unix.so
load-module module-esound-protocol-unix
.endif
load-module module-native-protocol-unix
### Network access (may be configured with paprefs, so leave this commented
### here if you plan to use paprefs)
#load-module module-esound-protocol-tcp
#load-module module-native-protocol-tcp
#load-module module-zeroconf-publish
### Load the RTP receiver module (also configured via paprefs, see above)
#load-module module-rtp-recv
### Load the RTP sender module (also configured via paprefs, see above)
#load-module module-null-sink sink_name=rtp format=s16be channels=2 rate=44100 sink_properties="device.description='RTP Multicast Sink'"
#load-module module-rtp-send source=rtp.monitor
### Load additional modules from GSettings. This can be configured with the paprefs tool.
### Please keep in mind that the modules configured by paprefs might conflict with manually
### loaded modules.
.ifexists module-gsettings.so
.nofail
load-module module-gsettings
.fail
.endif
### Automatically restore the default sink/source when changed by the user
### during runtime
### NOTE: This should be loaded as early as possible so that subsequent modules
### that look up the default sink/source get the right value
load-module module-default-device-restore
### Automatically move streams to the default sink if the sink they are
### connected to dies, similar for sources
load-module module-rescue-streams
### Make sure we always have a sink around, even if it is a null sink.
load-module module-always-sink
### Honour intended role device property
load-module module-intended-roles
### Automatically suspend sinks/sources that become idle for too long
load-module module-suspend-on-idle
### If autoexit on idle is enabled we want to make sure we only quit
### when no local session needs us anymore.
.ifexists module-console-kit.so
load-module module-console-kit
.endif
.ifexists module-systemd-login.so
load-module module-systemd-login
.endif
### Enable positioned event sounds
load-module module-position-event-sounds
### Cork music/video streams when a phone stream is active
load-module module-role-cork
### Modules to allow autoloading of filters (such as echo cancellation)
### on demand. module-filter-heuristics tries to determine what filters
### make sense, and module-filter-apply does the heavy-lifting of
### loading modules and rerouting streams.
load-module module-filter-heuristics
load-module module-filter-apply
### Make some devices default
#set-default-source alsa_output.pci-0000_00_14.2.iec958-stereo.monitor
#set-default-sink alsa_output.pci-0000_00_14.2.iec958-ac3-surround-51
load-module module-combine channels=6 channel_map=front-left,front-right,rear-left,rear-right,front-center,lfe
.asoundrc:
pcm.a52 {
@args [CARD]
@args.CARD {
type string
}
type rate
slave {
pcm {
type a52
bitrate 448
channels 6
card $CARD
}
rate 48000
}
}
My system:
Kernel: 5.9.3-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 10.2.0 Desktop: Xfce 4.14.2 Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: M5A97 EVO R2.0 v: Rev 1.xx
serial: <superuser/root required> BIOS: American Megatrends v: 2603
date: 02/12/2015
Battery:
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0
model: Logitech Illuminated Living-Room Keyboard K830
charge: 100% (should be ignored) status: Discharging
CPU:
Info: Quad Core model: AMD FX-4130 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Bulldozer
rev: 2 L2 cache: 2048 KiB
flags: avx lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
bogomips: 30513
Speed: 1420 MHz min/max: 1400/3800 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz):
1: 1484 2: 1429 3: 1420 4: 1439
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Cape Verde PRO [Radeon HD 7750/8740 / R7 250E]
vendor: PC Partner Limited driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: amdgpu,ati
unloaded: modesetting,radeon resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series (VERDE DRM 3.39.0
5.9.3-1-MANJARO LLVM 10.0.1)
v: 4.6 Mesa 20.2.1 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: AMD SBx00 Azalia vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus ID: 00:14.2
Device-2: AMD Oland/Hainan/Cape Verde/Pitcairn HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 7000
Series]
vendor: PC Partner Limited driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.9.3-1-MANJARO
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: ASUSTeK P8 series driver: r8169 v: kernel port: d000
bus ID: 02:00.0
IF: enp2s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: f0:79:59:63:f1:5c
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 810.44 GiB used: 495.74 GiB (61.2%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST3250410AS size: 232.89 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST9500325AS size: 465.76 GiB
ID-3: /dev/sdc vendor: Intel model: SSDSA2BW120G3H size: 111.79 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 109.53 GiB used: 15.33 GiB (14.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdc1
Swap:
Alert: No Swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 15.2 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 37.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 202 Uptime: 53m Memory: 7.68 GiB used: 1.28 GiB (16.7%)
Init: systemd Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 clang: 10.0.1 Packages: 1179
Shell: Bash v: 5.0.18 inxi: 3.1.08