LinuxQuestions.org - [SOLVED] ALSA 1.0.17 +HDA ATI SB=No surround sound.

First of all, hello :)
I am new to linux, but learned some stuff.
I've set up my system correctly and everything goes smooth except the surround sound. I have stereo sound with my onboard HDA ATI SB (ALC662 rev1) that works flawless, but when it comes to more than 2 channels it screws up. The soundcard has 3 shared jacks. On my old PC I used to remove pulseaudio and go on with alsa and have even stereo (mp3s) played on 6 channels via ~/.asoundrc. I can't remember my old soundcard but in alsamixer there was a switch for "shared" or "independant" jacks and another one for the channels - 2,4,6. Also I had volume controls for rear, front, center and LFE. I used Fedora 8, the same setup that I have on my new PC. Only the alsamixer now shows me Master, Headphone, Front, PCM, Front Mic, Line, Mic, IEC958(I have no idea what this is) and IEC958 Default PCM.
I tried playing some noise from the speakers with

Code:

speaker-test -D plug:surround51 -c 6

and it returned

Code:

[axtroz@DarkZone ~]$ speaker-test -D plug:surround51 -c6



speaker-test 1.0.17



Playback device is plug:surround51

Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 6 channels

Using 16 octaves of pink noise

Rate set to 48000Hz (requested 48000Hz)

Buffer size range from 64 to 16384

Period size range from 32 to 8192

Using max buffer size 16384

Periods = 4

was set period_size = 4096

was set buffer_size = 16384

 0 - Front Left

 4 - Center

 1 - Front Right

 3 - Rear Right

 2 - Rear Left

 5 - LFE

but sound comes out only from Front left and Front Right.
Here's what I've got from a few tools:

Code:

lspci:



[root@DarkZone ~]# lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RX790 Northbridge only single slot PCI-e_GFX and HT3 K8 part

00:02.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD790 PCI to PCI bridge (external gfx0 port A)

00:07.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD790 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port D)

00:12.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA

00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI0)

00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI1)

00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI2)

00:13.3 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI3)

00:13.4 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI4)

00:13.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB Controller (EHCI)

00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 14)

00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 IDE

00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia

00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge

00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge

00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration

00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map

00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller

00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8600 GT (rev a1)

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)

Code:

aplay -l



**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****

card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC662 Analog [ALC662 Analog]

  Subdevices: 1/1

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: ALC662 Digital [ALC662 Digital]

  Subdevices: 1/1

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Code:

aplay -L



default:CARD=SB

    HDA ATI SB, ALC662 Analog

    Default Audio Device

front:CARD=SB,DEV=0

    HDA ATI SB, ALC662 Analog

    Front speakers

surround40:CARD=SB,DEV=0

    HDA ATI SB, ALC662 Analog

    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers

surround41:CARD=SB,DEV=0

    HDA ATI SB, ALC662 Analog

    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers

surround50:CARD=SB,DEV=0

    HDA ATI SB, ALC662 Analog

    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers

surround51:CARD=SB,DEV=0

    HDA ATI SB, ALC662 Analog

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

surround71:CARD=SB,DEV=0

    HDA ATI SB, ALC662 Analog

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

null

    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)

dmesg output is here:
http://filebeam.com/9b22781f23fc58a378f179bc479dd0e9

Here's what I've got from amixer:

Code:

[axtroz@DarkZone ~]$ amixer

Simple mixer control 'Master',0

  Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined

  Playback channels: Mono

  Limits: Playback 0 - 64

  Mono: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]

Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0

  Capabilities: pswitch

  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right

  Mono:

  Front Left: Playback [on]

  Front Right: Playback [on]

Simple mixer control 'PCM',0

  Capabilities: pvolume

  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right

  Limits: Playback 0 - 255

  Mono:

  Front Left: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB]

  Front Right: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB]

Simple mixer control 'Front',0

  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch

  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right

  Limits: Playback 0 - 64

  Mono:

  Front Left: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]

  Front Right: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]

Simple mixer control 'Front Mic',0

  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch

  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right

  Limits: Playback 0 - 31

  Mono:

  Front Left: Playback 23 [74%] [0.00dB] [on]

  Front Right: Playback 23 [74%] [0.00dB] [on]

Simple mixer control 'Line',0

  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch

  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right

  Limits: Playback 0 - 31

  Mono:

  Front Left: Playback 23 [74%] [0.00dB] [on]

  Front Right: Playback 23 [74%] [0.00dB] [on]

Simple mixer control 'Mic',0

  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch

  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right

  Limits: Playback 0 - 31

  Mono:

  Front Left: Playback 23 [74%] [0.00dB] [on]

  Front Right: Playback 23 [74%] [0.00dB] [on]

Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0

  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined

  Playback channels: Mono

  Mono: Playback [off]

Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Default PCM',0

  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined

  Playback channels: Mono

  Mono: Playback [on]

Simple mixer control 'Capture',0

  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch

  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right

  Limits: Capture 0 - 31

  Front Left: Capture 31 [100%] [33.00dB] [on]

  Front Right: Capture 31 [100%] [33.00dB] [on]

Simple mixer control 'Input Source',0

  Capabilities: cenum

  Items: 'Mic' 'Front Mic' 'Line'

  Item0: 'Mic'

Read a dozen of FAQs, tried amost everything.
modprobe snd_hda_intel model=3stack-6ch does not help either :(
Went to the DVD Store, bought a DVD and tried it with whatever player there is - Totem, Mplayer(with several GUIs), Xine, Kaffeine, etc... but no sound... Only stereo :(
Please help! Thanks in advance!