[charlie0440]

Ive been pulling my hair out for days tring to get this to work. I must have read every HDMI thread on here and none have fixed my sound issues. I've tried 2 fresh installed nothing seems to fix it...... Anyway:

I have sound in XBMC but only stereo. I currently have output set to ALSA (Defaults), and whatever I try doesn't seem to work.

aplay- L

Code:

default
    Playback/recording through the PulseAudio sound server
hdmi:CARD=Generic,DEV=0
    HD-Audio Generic, HDMI 0
    HDMI Audio Output
dmix:CARD=Generic,DEV=3
    HD-Audio Generic, HDMI 0
    Direct sample mixing device
dsnoop:CARD=Generic,DEV=3
    HD-Audio Generic, HDMI 0
    Direct sample snooping device
hw:CARD=Generic,DEV=3
    HD-Audio Generic, HDMI 0
    Direct hardware device without any conversions
plughw:CARD=Generic,DEV=3
    HD-Audio Generic, HDMI 0
    Hardware device with all software conversions
sysdefault:CARD=Generic_1
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC892 Analog
    Default Audio Device
front:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC892 Analog
    Front speakers
surround40:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC892 Analog
    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC892 Analog
    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC892 Analog
    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC892 Analog
    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC892 Analog
    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC892 Digital
    IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
dmix:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC892 Analog
    Direct sample mixing device
dmix:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=1
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC892 Digital
    Direct sample mixing device
dsnoop:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC892 Analog
    Direct sample snooping device
dsnoop:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=1
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC892 Digital
    Direct sample snooping device
hw:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC892 Analog
    Direct hardware device without any conversions
hw:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=1
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC892 Digital
    Direct hardware device without any conversions
plughw:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC892 Analog
    Hardware device with all software conversions
plughw:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=1
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC892 Digital
    Hardware device with all software conversions

aplay -l

Code:

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Generic_1 [HD-Audio Generic], device 0: ALC892 Analog [ALC892 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Generic_1 [HD-Audio Generic], device 1: ALC892 Digital [ALC892 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

So I have tried as output & passthrough in XBMC:
hdmi:CARD=Generic,DEV=0
alsa:hdmi:CARD=Generic,DEV=0 (this worked on my previous ubuntu)
hdmi
plughw:0,3
etc etc

my asound.conf is currently empty or non existant.

The wierd thing is in Ubuntu if i try:

Code:

speaker-test -D default -c6 -twav

I can hear front,left, front-centre and front-right. The 2 rear channels are very faint and seem to be coming out of the front speakers, definately not the rear ones)

if I try

Code:

speaker-test -D plughw:0,3 -c6 -twav

I can only hear the front-left and front-right

I have tried editing /etc/pulse/daemon.conf and changing:
; default-sample-channels = 2
; default-channel-map = front-left,front-right
to this
; default-sample-channels = 6
; default-channel-map = front-left,front-right,rear-left,rear-right,front-center,lfe

Please can anyone help, hardware & software: A6-3500, A75m-ITX, Ubuntu 12.04, Catalyst Control Centre 2.14