Bug#610081: pulseaudio: Pulseadio not working well with audigy 2 value 7.1 sound card

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 05:26:19PM +0700, michael wrote:
> My Audigy2 value 7.1 card works fine with the alsa driver and apps (such as
> vlc) and vlc is able to do 7.1 sound.
> 
> However, Pulseaudio claims to see my Audigy2 value card and the mixer shows all
> the channels but I only get front-right and front-left through my front-center
> speaker when I run the command:
> speaker-test -c 8 -t wav
> 
> On the Gnome Sound Preferences application on the Hardware tab I've got it set
> to Analog Suround 7.1 Output + Analog Stereo Input (I've tried many other sound
> profiles but output is always the same). On the Output tab my output device
> selected (my only choice)  is: SB400 Audigy2 Value Analog Surround 7.1
> 
> My gigabyte motherboard has an Nvidia sound chip but it only worked in stereo
> in alsa (eventhough it's a 7.1 chip) so I disabled it in the BIOS although
> lspci seems to find it anyway.

Does this still occur with the pulseaudio from wheezy ?
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