[Expired for pulseaudio (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]
** Changed in: pulseaudio (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Expired -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to pulseaudio in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/642551 Title: [ATIIXP - ATI IXP] SPDIF output does not work with pulseaudio (reason included) Status in pulseaudio package in Ubuntu: Expired Bug description: Binary package hint: pulseaudio SPDIF works fine if pulseaudio is disabled via aplay The problem is that this ALSA environment has this mixer control: Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Playback AC97-SPSA',0 Capabilities: volume volume-joined penum Playback channels: Mono Capture channels: Mono Limits: 0 - 3 Mono: 3 [100%] Which pulseaudio *forces* to be '3' and keeps it there. Unfortunately *this is not a volume control* - inside the kernel this setting controls the SPSA channel assignment (see the A97 2.2 spec page 58). For output to work on my system this must be set to 0 - S/PDIF source data assigned to AC-link slots 3&4 I'm not sure who is at fault here. Some possibilities: 1) The kernel should export this as an ENUM type setting, not a volume slider 2) pulseaudio should treat it in some special way and at least let me set it to 0 3) Something else?? What is this even used for? The 'right' setting might naturally fall out depending on the channel count, or hardware config and this shouldn't even leave the kernel at all? Clearly, at least the current situation is completely useless. The value needs to be set properly, pulse has no way to set it, thus I get no sound. There have been other bugs related to this.. bug #198523, for instance. It is really obscure that something that looks like a volume slider has nothing to do with volume and is *critical* to proper sound output!! Jason ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: alsa-base 1.0.23+dfsg-1ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.32-generic 2.6.35.4 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686 AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23. Architecture: i386 ArecordDevices: **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices **** card 0: IXP [ATI IXP], device 0: ATI IXP AC97 [ATI IXP AC97] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: jgg 1933 F.... pulseaudio /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: jgg 1933 F...m pulseaudio Card0.Amixer.info: Card hw:0 'IXP'/'ATI IXP rev 2 with ALC658D at 0xfe02a000, irq 17' Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC658D' Components : 'AC97a:414c4781' Controls : 38 Simple ctrls : 24 Date: Sat Sep 18 23:00:05 2010 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Beta i386 (20100901.1) PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=C SHELL=/bin/bash SelectedCard: 0 IXP ATIIXP - ATI IXP SourcePackage: alsa-driver Symptom: audio Title: [ATIIXP - ATI IXP] ALSA test tone not correctly played back dmi.bios.date: 09/30/2005 dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD dmi.bios.version: 3.35 dmi.board.name: AMETHYST-M dmi.board.vendor: MSI dmi.board.version: 1.0 dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologies,LTD:bvr3.35:bd09/30/2005:svnCompaqPresario061:pnED865AA-ABASR1610NXNA540:pvr0n41411RE101AMETH00:rvnMSI:rnAMETHYST-M:rvr1.0:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct3:cvr: dmi.product.name: ED865AA-ABA SR1610NX NA540 dmi.product.version: 0n41411RE101AMETH00 dmi.sys.vendor: Compaq Presario 061 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/642551/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp