[LAU] envy 1712 - infamous but obscure

[Paul Coccoli]

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 7:06 AM, ailo <ailo.at at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been subscribing to a bug related to my soundcards of choice, namely
> M-Audio Delta cards (chipset: envy 1712).
> There has been a problem getting these cards to work with Pulseaudio for
> years now.
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/178442?comments=all

The Red Hat bugzilla number is 499435.

> I've been reading about envy 1712 all over the web, more so last year, when
> I was trying my best to solve the problem on my own machine.
> One of the things I picked up was that there seemed to be a discussion on
> whether this is an Alsa bug, or a Pulseaudio bug.
> The bug itself makes it impossible to use audio inputs and outputs with
> Pulseaudio, only digital ins and outs are detected. Alsa, OSS and jack all
> work well with these cards but not Pulseaudio.

In my simple mind, this statement implies it's a PulseAudio bug.

> [SNIP]

This comment on the same bug in fedora contains a workaround:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499435#c29

I use this workaround because I have no time to fix either PulseAudio
(which could probably work around the issue itself) or ALSA.  I do
wish someone would fix it properly (whatever that means).  Until then
I have to keep patching that conf file every time alsa updates.