Bug#674679: pulseaudio: when speakers are set to 5.1 audio can fail on many applications

[Felipe Sateler]

Hi Dick,

On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 06:18:33PM +0100, Dick William Thomas wrote:
> Package: pulseaudio
> Version: 2.0-3
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
> 
>    * What led up to the situation?
> I installed minecraft and found my audio was distorted and the java app didn't
> show up in the pulseaudio volume control menus
> it also did it when playing two audio stream from say flash and a music player
> 
>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)?
> I've tried reinstalling and removing each application till It was just the
> basic system just incase it was a clash with another program e.g kdenlive
> 
> 
>    * What was the outcome of this action?
> the only thing that did work was setting the speaker configuration to 2 not 5.1
> or 4.1 but this means the audio isn't taken advantage of all my speakers
>    * What outcome did you expect instead?
> I expect that having audio at 5.1 would work
> 
> 

You reported this problem a long time ago and it might have been fixed 
since then.

Can you still reproduce this issue? If so, please reply so that we may 
debug the problem, otherwise I'd like to close this bug

Thanks

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler