I can confirm that there seems to be a regression in the alsa audio driver. I was trying this soundcard directly with alsa and get distoreted audio and rumble in *some* apps.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to alsa-driver in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/518966 Title: Wrong pitch and crackling sound with 5.1 output on Extigy USB card Status in alsa-driver package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: pulseaudio Since i upgraded to Karmic, my 5.1 sound output on my creative labs extigy USB card is broken. The previous release did work with alsa, and was working fine. Now with Pulseaudio, the sound is only working correctly with stereo output, with 5.1, the sound is crackling, and the pitch is too high. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 ArecordDevices: **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices **** card 1: Extigy [Sound Blaster Extigy], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC1: jean-luc 2681 F.... pulseaudio Card0.Amixer.info: Card hw:0 'HDMI'/'HDA ATI HDMI at 0xfe9fc000 irq 29' Mixer name : 'ATI R6xx HDMI' Components : 'HDA:1002aa01,00aa0100,00100100' Controls : 4 Simple ctrls : 1 Card0.Amixer.values: Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0 Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Mono: Playback [on] Card1.Amixer.info: Card hw:1 'Extigy'/'Creative Technology Ltd. Sound Blaster Extigy at usb-0000:00:1a.0-2, full speed' Mixer name : 'USB Mixer' Components : 'USB041e:3000' Controls : 23 Simple ctrls : 17 Date: Mon Feb 8 19:48:40 2010 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx Package: alsa-base 1.0.20+dfsg-1ubuntu5 PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-19.56-generic SourcePackage: alsa-driver Uname: Linux 2.6.31-19-generic x86_64 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/518966/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
