surround 5.1 over optical cable
I've been looking in so many forums and tried so many troubleshooting that I am already lost. I've tried doing the steps in this guide and pulse audio got to show me digital output 5.1 but my rear speakers didn't make any sound, so I've tried a few troubleshooting steps in many different websites including this one. And after a few reinstalls of various software and codecs and libraries it doesn't show it anymore. So I am hoping to find a solution with you and hopfully get a response and if I am luky a solution. I will send any information that I can so for now I will let you my setup:
motherboard: asus tuf gaming b450m-plus ii
cpu: ryzen 2600
graphics card: nvidia ge force gtx 1080
OS: Ubuntu 20.04
let me know if i can give you any more information. I am really comfortable with my OS the way it is now and it took me a lot of time to set up all the things the way I like it. I don't wanna make a windows install because of something that may be just a few command lines. thank you
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well i dont know exactly what i did but following the setps here somehow got me to the point were pulse audio show me the option of digial 5.1 once again. yet to this point, althogh in the gnome sound configuration show me 5.1 it neither make a sound when i want to test it by clicking the speakers icons nor they sound when i test them in the terminal
