3 Sep
2010
3 Sep
'10
7:13 p.m.
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 7:06 AM, ailo <ailo.at(a)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=a…
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.