Ok, So i've always had trouble with enabling 5.1 in ubuntu. Running 'alsamixer':

I have: Master, Heaphones, PCM, Front, Front Mi, Front Mi, Surround, Center All are at 100%

Card:HDA Intel

Chip:Realtek ALC888 (This is my onboard sound, Its a dell studio, with 7.1 integrated sound)

Running "speaker-test -c6 -twav" I only get the front 2 speakers (Right/Left) making any noise. The others make no noise at all.

I have no other sound card to use as all my PCI slots are used up.

Daemon.conf:

; daemonize = no ; fail = yes ; allow-module-loading = yes ; allow-exit = yes ; use-pid-file = yes ; system-instance = no ; enable-shm = yes ; shm-size-bytes = 0 # setting this 0 will use the system-default, usually 64 MiB ; lock-memory = no ; cpu-limit = no

; high-priority = yes ; nice-level = -11

; realtime-scheduling = yes ; realtime-priority = 5

; exit-idle-time = 20 ; scache-idle-time = 20

; dl-search-path = (depends on architecture)

; load-default-script-file = yes ; default-script-file =

; log-target = auto ; log-level = notice ; log-meta = no ; log-time = no ; log-backtrace = 0

resample-method = speex-float-1 ; enable-remixing = yes ; enable-lfe-remixing = no

flat-volumes = no

; rlimit-fsize = -1 ; rlimit-data = -1 ; rlimit-stack = -1 ; rlimit-core = -1 ; rlimit-as = -1 ; rlimit-rss = -1 ; rlimit-nproc = -1 ; rlimit-nofile = 256 ; rlimit-memlock = -1 ; rlimit-locks = -1 ; rlimit-sigpending = -1 ; rlimit-msgqueue = -1 ; rlimit-nice = 31 ; rlimit-rtprio = 9 ; rlimit-rttime = 1000000

; default-sample-format = s16le ; default-sample-rate = 44100 ; default-sample-channels = 6 ; default-channel-map = front-left,front-right

default-fragments = 8 default-fragment-size-msec = 10