Setting up Alsa for multi-channel support?

["Al Puzzuoli" <apuzzuoli comcast net>]

Hi all
,Just recently, I did a clean reinstall of Fedora 4.  On the previous 
installation, I had managed to get multi-channel support on my Sound blaster 
live.  At one time, I installed alsa kernel modules and the alsa-driver from 
ATrpms, and i believe multi-channel support was enabled during that 
instalation process.
The point is, I'm not exactly sure how.    Was it simply a function of 
installing a more up to date driver, or can multi-channel support be set up 
by making modifications to files such as asound.conf?

Any info would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

--Al