On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 1:05 AM, Michael Trausch <m...@trausch.us> wrote: > Tested and verified w/ at least Rhythmbox and Banshee. Have offered a bounty > for years for anyone who fox the bug. There are open, confirmed bugs in (at > least) Launchpad going back quite some time, too. Happens regardless of > hardware, but have had it happen on SB Live and several onboards.
Do you have links to the bugs? > The only time I ever got 5.1 working was with straight ALSA, but then I > don't get upmixing. > > As a result, I have been using netradio. No closing and opening of the audio > device. > > Also, canberra (the sound notification library) seems to actually output > sound correctly, but I think it holds the device open the whole time. I have libcanberra compiled with PA support, so I can use it with other sound sources at the same time. > PA isn't changing the configuration back to stereo. It shows 5.1, but media > players only output to two speakers until I open the PA control and jump > from 5.1 to 4.1 and back. And the players output to PulseAudio directly or through the ALSA emulation? In GNOME 2 you could configure GStreamer (which both Rhythmbox and Banshee use) to use PulseAudio as default sink, or using ALSA; but it PA is running, newer versions will automagically detect it and use it [1]. I use GNOME 3 and PA is mandatory, so I don't remember exactly how it was. Sorry for my curiosity, but it sounds really weird: I have heard a lot about PA problems, but nothing like this. [1] http://arunraghavan.net/2012/02/gentoo-pulseaudio-alsa-update/ -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
