[RamBurner]

OS: LinuxMint 11 64bit
Video card: HD5770
Ram: 4GB DDR3 1333MHz
Sound: onboard using 3- 3.5mm jacks 5.1 surround

The sound works normal using every other program, when using XBMC set to Analog/5.1/Internal 5.1 Surround sound
The sound comes out all speakers but is at a very low volume with everything cranked up to its max.

I have two different hard drives, one with Win7 on it the other with Linux Mint 11 on it.
I tried it with the Win7 hard drive and it worked as it should, it detected it as it should be set on the Windows drive, but I could never get anything but a low volume on the Linux drive.

I only use the Windows drive for when I want to play a game, not as my regular use OS.

Hopefully one of you folks has an answer for this problem.

[kwstump]

have you tried looking at alsamixer (command line tool) to raise your volume leves (I know that is on ubuntu but not sure if it is on mint)

[RamBurner]

I can take a look and see if that is the problem, thanks for the suggestion.

[RamBurner]

Well I looked at alsamixer in the terminal no solution there, but a small solution I found that works a little better than what I was getting is that the onboard sound can do 7.1
So I set everything in the systems area to 7.1 after I set it on the desktop as 7.1 instead of 5.1 and I got increased volume.
Not as much as I would like, but much better.
Going to have to research it a little more to see what can be found.