1) put in asound.conf : pcm.!default { type plug slave.pcm "surround51" slave.channels 6 route_policy duplicate } 2) restart alsa => sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart
5.1 alsa asound.conf audigy EMU10k1 linux surround
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