Bug#590426: pulseaudio: soundcards recognised but not working in squeeze - dual soundcard config

[Alvaro Romero]

Package: pulseaudio
version. 0.9.21-3 amd64

Iv'e got two soundcards in my system; one of them is an hdmi "card" included in 
the ATI 4650 PCIe card, and the other is a SoundBlaster Audigy2 card.

My first "issue" is that the ATI "card" is detected first at every startup, but 
the working one - the one with speakers pluged - is the Audigy. The second issue 
is that pulseaudio doesn't install by default in Squeeze, so I installed it 
through synaptic.

In GNOME I deactivated the HDMI card and set the SB as the default card in 
"sound preferences", but I obtained no sound from the audigy.
I tried to change the speakers settings - 5.1 speakers with analog output, 2 
speakers analog, with/without amplifier, etc. - but the audigy remained silent; 
meanwhile, pulseaudio "told" me that the card was working, showing the volume 
levels per app in the volume control.

When I installed Ubuntu 10.04 and Fedora 13  I obtained the same setup - ATI 
HDMI first card, Audigy second -, but when I switched from ATI HDMI to SB sound 
worked flawlessly... In my Lenny days I had to create an asound.conf file, 
lowerig the ATI card to second place - even with pulseaudio installed -; this 
was the oly way to obtain working sound with Lenny in my system.

My system specs: Athlon 64 dual core, mainboard with AMD SB700 chipset, 2 Gigs 
of RAM, SoundBlaster Audigy 2 soundcard and an ATI 4650 graphics card.


      
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