5.1 USB Sound Card .asoundrc errors

[Jmadero]

Hi All,

Summary: I have a 5.1 USB Sound Card (GWC 5.1 sound card) and a 5.1 system.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829126101
Unfortunately I only get 2.1 sound and following many different .asoundrc instructions including the one listed on newegg site by a previous buyer of the card, I continue to get the following error:

audiotestsrc wave=sine freq=512 ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink: Failed to connect: Connection refused

Details:
Running Ubuntu 8.10 on a Dell Inspiron 9400, 2 gigs of RAM

It seems to me like the problem is when I add the following line to my .asoundrc

pcm.!default {

but I am almost positive that is necessary for me to get 5.1 working. If I remove that in codes I don't get the error but I also don't get 5.1 sound.

Other things I've tried:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=755479
http://ubuntu-utah.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=580398

I have tried on both ALSA 1.0.15 from the repositories as well as on the newest driver/lib/utils from the site (what I currently have, 1.0.19)

aplay -L shows my external sound card

default:CARD=Audio

    USB Audio, USB Audio

    Default Audio Device

front:CARD=Audio,DEV=0

    USB Audio, USB Audio

    Front speakers

surround40:CARD=Audio,DEV=0

    USB Audio, USB Audio

    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers

surround41:CARD=Audio,DEV=0

    USB Audio, USB Audio

    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers

surround50:CARD=Audio,DEV=0

    USB Audio, USB Audio

    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers

surround51:CARD=Audio,DEV=0

    USB Audio, USB Audio

    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers

surround71:CARD=Audio,DEV=0

    USB Audio, USB Audio

    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers

iec958:CARD=Audio,DEV=0

    USB Audio, USB Audio

    IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output

and

cat /proc/asound/cards

shows:

0 [Audio ]: USB-Audio - USB Audio

                      USB Audio at usb-0000:00:1d.2-1, full speed

 1 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel

                      HDA Intel at 0xefffc000 irq 21

Thanks all

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

Hi Jmadero,

Please, if you are still having issues, test with the latest development release of Ubuntu. ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ .

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p alsa-base 337278

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds .

Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text.

Please let us know your results.

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[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

This bug report was marked as Incomplete and has not had any updated comments for quite some time. As a result this bug is being closed. Please reopen if this is still an issue in the current Ubuntu release http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download . Also, please be sure to provide any requested information that may have been missing. To reopen the bug, click on the current status under the Status column and change the status back to "New". Thanks.

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