[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#607216: alsa-base: emu10k1 ALSA driver mostly doesn't work

[michael]

Package: alsa-base
Version: 1.0.23+dfsg-2
Severity: normal

I've recently installed Debian testing and as of 16-Dec-2010 everything is up
to date.

The ALSA driver for my Sound Blaster Audigy Value is the emu10k1.  My
motherboard has a sound card witch I've disabled in my bios and blacklisted the
modules as well (it only does stereo even though it's capable of 7.1, it's one
of the HD-intel cards).

When I run the command:
$ speaker-test -c 8 -t wav

speaker-test 1.0.23

Playback device is default
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 8 channels
WAV file(s)
Rate set to 48000Hz (requested 48000Hz)
Buffer size range from 64 to 16384
Period size range from 16 to 16384
Using max buffer size 16384
Periods = 4
was set period_size = 4096
was set buffer_size = 16384
 0 - Front Left
 4 - Center
 1 - Front Right
 7 - Side Right
 3 - Rear Right
 2 - Rear Left
 6 - Side Left
 5 - LFE
Time per period = 11.096700

Okay, I get Front Left and Front Right but not from left or right speakers.
It's only coming out of the center speaker.  So I get 0 and 1 out of 4 and only
silence from 2 through 7.

In Ubuntu 10.10 it only gets 5.1 sound. In Ubuntu 10.04 I had full 7.1.  I no
longer have my Gentoo install but when I did I never had a problem with the
emu10k1 and automagically got 7.1 sound.



-- Package-specific info:
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Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  libasound2     1.0.23-2.1     shared library for ALSA applications
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--- Begin /proc/asound/version ---
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.
--- End /proc/asound/version ---
--- Begin /proc/asound/cards ---
 0 [Audigy2        ]: Audigy2 - SB Audigy 2 Value [SB0400]
                      SB Audigy 2 Value [SB0400] (rev.0, serial:0x10011102) at 0xbc00, irq 17
--- End /proc/asound/cards ---
--- Begin /dev/snd/ listing ---
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root       60 Dec 16 01:06 by-path
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 13 Dec 16 01:06 controlC0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  4 Dec 16 01:06 hwC0D0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 14 Dec 16 01:06 hwC0D2
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  6 Dec 16 01:06 midiC0D0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  5 Dec 16 01:06 midiC0D1
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 15 Dec 16 01:06 midiC0D2
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 16 Dec 16 01:06 midiC0D3
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 12 Dec 16 01:06 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 11 Dec 16 01:54 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 10 Dec 16 01:06 pcmC0D1c
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  9 Dec 16 01:06 pcmC0D2c
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  8 Dec 16 01:06 pcmC0D2p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  7 Dec 16 01:06 pcmC0D3p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  3 Dec 16 01:06 seq
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  2 Dec 16 01:06 timer
--- End /dev/snd/ listing ---

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages alsa-base depends on:
ii  linux-sound-base           1.0.23+dfsg-2 base package for ALSA and OSS soun
ii  lsof                       4.81.dfsg.1-1 List open files
ii  module-init-tools          3.12-1        tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  udev                       164-2         /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

Versions of packages alsa-base recommends:
ii  alsa-utils                    1.0.23-3   Utilities for configuring and usin

Versions of packages alsa-base suggests:
ii  alsa-oss                      1.0.17-4   ALSA wrapper for OSS applications
pn  apmd                          <none>     (no description available)
ii  oss-compat                    0.0.4+nmu3 OSS compatibility package

Versions of packages libasound2 depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-7   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib

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