Re: [gentoo-user] Should I install pulseaudio to solve my phonon audio problems?

[Michael Trausch]

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.

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.

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.
On Aug 20, 2012 1:03 AM, "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@×××××.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Michael Trausch <mike@×××××××.us> wrote:
> > Yes.
> >
> > I have to change it to 4.1 and then back to 5.1 after every song finishes
> > playing.
> >
> > It has been that way ever since the first time I encountered it in Ubuntu
> > years back.
>
> It has never done that to me. Which music player do you use? It
> happens with every one? I use Rhythmbox, Totem, Mplayer2,  and of
> course I watch videos in YouTube in Chromium; nothing even remotely
> similar has ever happened to me. But if it happens "after every song",
> maybe the music player somehow changes the setting? It sounds fishy,
> but PA should not change the setting by itself.
>
> Anyhow, I'm a perfectly happy 5.1 surround user with PulseAudio since
> at least two years.
>
> Regards.
> --
> Canek Peláez Valdés
> Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
> Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
>
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