No sound on surround sound sys

I have a Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic card and need to know?where to connect the audio plug that leads to my 5. system. Line out has my computer speakers (2.) and I tried connecting the other plug to line-out 2 and then 3 but get no sound. The only way to hear a movie via my computer on my tv and 5. set-up is to use a 2for adapter in line-out with my computer speakers. ?

What kind of speakers are they exactly?
The X-Fi Xtreme Music has 3 outputs on the back of the card, if you are using analog 5. speakers then you should use those outputs.
Check this image of the card.
The outputs you need are:
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Make sure you set the speaker selections to 5. aswell.
Cat

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Hello John, I figured it was a signal issue. All the speakers fire and the sound is great. I was running the speakers thru a Dell PC with a Creative X-Fi Elite Pro, THX Certified, 7.1 soundcard using a fiber optic from the Mac Pro to the Z906's, it worked great until the Dell died!!! When I bought the soundcard from Creative I also bought the GigaWorks S750, THX Certified, 700 watt, 7.1 speaker system, used the speakers for 11 years and then the woofer/amp said "I QUIT" Creative quit making the speaker system and the sound card. The satellite speakers from the Creative GigaWorks speaker system still sound great (rated at 78 watt each) and are a little better speaker than the one's that came with the Z906 and the wattage from the 906 is sufficient to drive the satellites without any distortion. Thank you for addressing my issue, you confirmed what I suspected all along, just needed to hear it from someone with the same setup.
One last question, I purchased a Diamond Multimedia USB Soundcard, can't use the fiber optic(not supported by Mac) but the green, tan and black RCA's plug in and produces adequetly. When you plug your 906's into the Mac Pro using the fiber optic how do you set your speaker configuration? When I plug into the mac pro with fiber optic the 'Audio Midi Setup' does not seem to see the 5.1 configuration. Any thoughts there?
Carl

Original sound blaster audigy 4 won't make my 5.1 surround speakers function well

hello i have just bought my pc and can't make my 5. surround speakers function well. I installed KX drivers...and they did function but my microphone to speak with people over msn et al could not function and some .wmv videos had their sound disabled when fast forwarded a bit. I dont understand what us happening........... why the original drivers supplied with the sound card are damaged? where is quality ? :S

Not too sure what to tell you. My system is almost identical to yours,
OS Name Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate
Version 6.0.6000 Build 6000
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name STORMY
System Manufacturer System manufacturer
System Model System Product Name
System Type x64-based PC
Processor AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+, 2608 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Phoenix Technologies, LTD ASUS A8N-SLI Premium ACPI BIOS Revision 302, 4/2/2006
SMBIOS Version 2.3
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume2
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.0.6000.6386"
Total Physical Memory 2,046.94 MB
Name Creative Audigy Audio Processor (WDM)
Manufacturer Creative Technology, Ltd.
Status OK
PNP Device ID PCI\VEN_02&DEV_0008&SUBSYS_0202&REV_00\4&369980&0& 3848
I/O Port 0x0000A000-0x0000AFFF
IRQ Channel IRQ 7
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\ctaud2k.sys (6.0..242, 842.80 KB (863,032 bytes), 2/3/2007 3:50 PM)
and other than the non-working apps, and haven't had any problems with my A4. I don't know if this helped in my case for the audio or not,
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=d2e2cae-6aef-4a40-bd00-f0fb2a7e99f&DisplayLang=en
but I know that it did help with the video. It updates both DX9 and DX0 so give it a try and see what happens.

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Hello,
I've just been reading this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2924869?
Which among many things discusses the fact that Mac Pros, even through an optical cable, are not capable of exporting live 5.1 audio - they can only playback already encoded 5.1 dolby audio from DVD's for example. Apparently the optical out is a purely stereo affair otherwise. I've finally received my Logitech 5450 speakers (took weeks and weeks) and hooked them up. They can indeed playback 5.1 from a DVD, which is splendid. However, one of the things I was most looking forward to was working on surround mixes in Soundtrack Pro. However, firstly STP doesn't want to convert stereo files into surround (like the video online showed), but only means that the surround panner pans between the two front speakers. (I know there's another thread about that, but the proposed solution of adjusting the collapse slider does nothing).
Secondly, and perhaps more confusingly, if I load an actual 5.1 file from the STP content, it still doesn't play in proper surround - the centre speaker kind of works and I think something's rumbling through the subwoofer, but both of the left speakers and right speakers are 'compressed' into the front one alone - nothing comes out of the rear speakers (they are perfectly connected I assure you!). In other words, f I move the puck in the surround panner so it's solely on the front right, and then over to the rear right, it's exactly the same (coming out the front).
I'm sure there must be a solution. Why would Apple advertise the ease with which one can now mix surround if the Mac Pro (I'm not exactly talking about a mac mini here) cannot export live 5.1?
Something which I'm sure is related, but which I can't solve, is that if I go into Audio MIDI setup in Utilities, and try and 'Configure Speakers', only two channels are recognised, and it won't let me select any of the multichannel options (such as 5.1, which is greyed out.)
Anyone know what I'm going on about? I'm totally lost - not really an audio person in general, but hoping to enrich my short films with some surround magic.
Any help greatly appreciated!
Steve
Mac Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8)
Mac Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Typically 5.1 is mixed, and monitored on a 5.1 monitoring system, which means you need an audio interface and setup capable of outputting six channels of audio.
So of course the Mac Pro is capable, but not without additional multi-channel playback and monitoring hardware.
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