Thus spake matthew green ("mg> ") sometime Tomorrow...

mg> i don't see why our audio subsystem doesn't already support 5.1 devices.
mg>
mg> the merging thing would need work, but as far as i can tell, we support
mg> a variable number of channels.  from <sys/audioio.h>:
mg>
mg>         u_int   channels;       /* number of channels, usually 1 or 2 */

Wow.

We don't support 5.1 at all?  We also don't support hw EQ, I note, or
at least we don't make any mention of doing so for cards which support it.
We do, at least, seem to support hw 3D, nominally.

But no 5.1 or hwEQ?  This has transcended all other adjectives to fall
into the category of "extremely annoying."

				--*greywolf;
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