Did you also copy over /etc/asound.conf (or where ever Ubuntu stores the global ALSA config file)? Hate to lead you to other distro territory for this, but it could help: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Advanced_Linux_Sound_Architecture#Upmixing.2FDownmixing -- Jeremy MountainJohnson Jeremy.MountainJohnson at gmail.com On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Yaron <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote: > Ok folks, it's "Alsa Is Driving Me Crazy YET AGAIN" time. > > My media center computer's SSD (which is ancient and crappy) is thinking > about dying, and I wanted some different software on there (DOWNgrading > MythTV to 0.24, in fact) so perfect time to throw a new drive in there and > start from scratch since I have a backup. > > Now I can't get sound to work right. > > These are both Ubuntu systems, the new one is 12.10, the old one, uh. > Probably 12.04 via updates. > > I... remember going through a lot of trouble to get alsa to work correctly > in the first place, including giving m full surround sound etc. Now the > thing doesn't even show I have the surround channels. > > Here's the thing. I copied over .asoundrc. I even copied over all of > /usr/share/alsa from the previous installation. Still nothing. At one point > I managed to get SOME surround sound but the channels were a mess... > > Anyway, before I go looking for an alsa-list with it's crazy amount of > unhelpful snark, I figured I'd throw it on here. > > Does anyone know exactly what I need to copy from the old installation to > make it so alsa has the exact same configuration? > > > TIA! > > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list