On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 10:18 AM, m...@trausch.us <m...@trausch.us> wrote: > On 08/20/2012 02:19 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >> And the players output to PulseAudio directly or through the ALSA >> emulation? In GNOME 2 you could configure GStreamer (which both >> Rhythmbox and Banshee use) to use PulseAudio as default sink, or using >> ALSA; but it PA is running, newer versions will automagically detect >> it and use it [1]. I use GNOME 3 and PA is mandatory, so I don't >> remember exactly how it was. > > I just checked my GStreamer settings, and they are correct; here is a > transcript of the configuration window for gstreamer-properties: > > ================================== > Default Output > > Plugin: PulseAudio Sound Server > Device: Internal Audio Analog Surround 5.1 > Pipeline: [can't read, runs off the screen and window won't resize] > ================================== > > The Input section is blank, and I never use the input so it doesn't matter. > > I still have to do the scroll-up/scroll-down trickery every time I start > a stream in Banshee or Rhythmbox.
I don't know what to tell you, except that I haven't had any problem with my 5.1 configuration. Ever. The internal soundcard in my desktop is also 5.1 capable, and it also just works (just checked). What I know is that several times I read the author complaining on how Ubuntu packages PA [1], but I have never used Ubuntu, so I don't know. I just installed PA in Gentoo when it became stable, I have never touched its configuration files, and it just works, in all my machines (that use audio; I don't use it on servers, obviously). Regards. [1] http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/pa-in-ubuntu.html -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
