Comments on: How-to: Enable Surround Sound on Ubuntu Hardy

By: Samir

Samir — Thu, 26 May 2011 05:10:58 +0000

hey ..is the procedure same for mint too. I tried it but i can’t find the volume control or alsa mixer in mint like as shown above.I did upto the speaker sound test and only 2 speakers plays the sound test.

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 04:06:45 +0000

Thank you for the tutorial… but I still can’t have 5.1 sound. When I run the command “speaker-test -Dplug:surround51 -c6 -l1 -twav” I hear the sound of every speaker but even when I change the setting of the Volume Manager I’m still unable to listen my music on 5.1… Can you please help me?

By: Nikos

Nikos — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 14:30:32 +0000

Just open Sound preferences and under the hardware tab, select the 4.x or 5.x profile for your sound card. It should work. Ubuntu has come a long way since Hardy Heron (where I used to fiddle with Alsamixer for hours, argghh)to make surround available.

By: k0p1lu

k0p1lu — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:47:14 +0000

hy it works….but i got a problem after rebot have the setings but no more suround:( and nothing works…i tryed to make again the same thing but nope…don’t work can u help me pls?:D

By: Baasha

Baasha — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:03:53 +0000

I have the same Logitech 5.1 speaker system and have the same problem. I have a suspicion that the speakers have nothing to do with it though, as I was able to get 5.1 sound in Ubuntu Hardy with no problem. But now that a lot of people have moved on to Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) we can no longer enjoy 5.1. Perhaps it is time to start a new thread about enabling 5.1 in Ubuntu 9.10, if such a thing is possible. I have read some comments in other forums that Pulse Audio is completely broken in 9.10. Is this true Scott?

By: Helo1200

Helo1200 — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 08:37:15 +0000

I know this is a bit late considering the date this was posted but i have a bit of a problem with my system. I recently bought a Logitech x-530 5.1 surround set and Ive done every single thing you said on the how to but i still cant get the proper sound. Btw, i have Ubuntu 9.10 and i have a 7.1 surround sound

By: GIRISH

GIRISH — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:59:51 +0000

how to enable 2.1 surround in ubuntu? I set default-sample-channels = 3. but doesn’t work. help me.please….

By: pred

pred — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:24:06 +0000

Works great, thanks for putting this up!

By: antonio1

antonio1 — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:44:18 +0000

I can not see line in as output, this is what I wanted to say.

By: antonio1

antonio1 — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:43:06 +0000

hmmm, I can see line in as output, but thatś what I want because my output speaker is broken, and I need to have a sound through line-in. Do you know what else I have to change. More than this pavumeter dont work for me!