Surround on card Realtek ALC861-VD does not works

[Carlos Viera]

I have connected this:
Blue Jack plug -> back/surround skpeakers
Green Jack Plug -> Front Speakers
Pink Jack Plug -> Center/woofer

sound card: HDA VIA VT82xx Chip: Realtek ALC861-VD

lspci output:
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 Host Bridge
00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 Host Bridge
00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 Host Bridge
00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 Host Bridge
00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 Host Bridge
00:00.5 PIC: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 I/O APIC Interrupt Controller
00:00.6 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 Security Device
00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237/VX700 PCI Bridge
00:02.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 PCI to PCI Bridge Controller
00:03.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 PCI to PCI Bridge Controller
00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Device 5337 (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 07)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A PCI to ISA Bridge
00:11.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8251 Ultra VLINK Controller
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 7c)
00:13.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A Host Bridge
00:13.1 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A PCI to PCI Bridge
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G98 [GeForce 8400 GS] (rev a1)
04:04.0 Modem: Smart Link Ltd. LM-I56N (rev 02)
80:01.0 Audio device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT1708/A [Azalia HDAC] (VIA High Definition Audio Controller) (rev 10)

dmesg attached

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In MS Windows it works.

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ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: alsa-base 1.0.22.1+dfsg-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-27.49-generic 2.6.32.26+drm33.12
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-27-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: VT82xx [HDA VIA VT82xx], device 0: ALC861-VD Analog [ALC861-VD Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: rafael 1970 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: rafael 1970 F...m pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'VT82xx'/'HDA VIA VT82xx at 0xbfffc000 irq 17'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC861-VD'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0862,1565c601,00100001'
   Controls : 35
   Simple ctrls : 20
Date: Thu Dec 23 19:14:38 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=es_UY.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SelectedCard: 0 VT82xx HDA-Intel - HDA VIA VT82xx
SourcePackage: alsa-driver
Symptom: audio
Title: [Realtek ALC861-VD] ALSA test tone not correctly played back
dmi.bios.date: 04/19/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
dmi.bios.version: 6.00 PG
dmi.board.name: P4M89-M7A
dmi.board.vendor: BIOSTAR Group
dmi.board.version: Ver:1.0
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: BIOSTAR Group
dmi.chassis.version: P4M89-M7A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologies,LTD:bvr6.00PG:bd04/19/2007:svnBIOSTARGroup:pnP4M89-M7A:pvrVer1.0:rvnBIOSTARGroup:rnP4M89-M7A:rvrVer1.0:cvnBIOSTARGroup:ct3:cvrP4M89-M7A:
dmi.product.name: P4M89-M7A
dmi.product.version: Ver:1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: BIOSTAR Group

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Please try tomorrow's daily snapshot.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/InstallingLinuxAlsaDriverModules

[Carlos Viera (carlosviera5-gmail)]

It did not work.
I hope to explain better with this picture:

http://gocasystem.com/ubuntu/bug.png

[Bartosz Kosiorek (gang65)]

Have you changed sound preferences to handle surrond (in sound preferences)?

[Carlos Viera (carlosviera5-gmail)]

Yes, see the pictures..

http://gocasystem.com/ubuntu/Pantallazo-Preferencias%20de%20sonido.png
http://gocasystem.com/ubuntu/Pantallazo-Preferencias%20de%20sonido-1.png
http://gocasystem.com/ubuntu/Pantallazo-Preferencias%20de%20sonido-2.png
http://gocasystem.com/ubuntu/Pantallazo-Preferencias%20de%20sonido-3.png
http://gocasystem.com/ubuntu/Pantallazo-Preferencias%20de%20sonido-4.png

Thanks for your patience!!

Carlos

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

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