Comment 26 for bug 1236965

Going through the comments, I hope I don't miss anything:

 > I removed the -v argswitch from your test; not supported on my box.

Sorry, confused speaker-test with aplay. Aplay has a -v switch that can give some debug information.

> 1. both in stereo and surround profiles
> I don't understand what this means. Where do I specify my audio-profile?

There should be a way to select profile - in Gnome sound settings it's a combobox called "Mode:", in pavucontrol it's on the configuration tab. However, now looking at your original PulseList.txt, the surround profile does not even show up, so we need to look at that first. Without that surround profile, anything that goes through pulseaudio will be stereo only.

> 2. In future tests, would pulseaudio -k suffice, rather than a full reboot?

Yes. Just make sure pulseaudio actually does restart.