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! --