I've just installed Monday's rawhide on a machine with a SB Live (emu10k1) sound card and have stumbled across several sound problems:
1. Pulseaudio only sees the front 2 speakers of the emu10k1 - the workaround for this is to add "default-sample-channels = 4" to /etc/pulse/daemon.conf, but this changes the number of channels seen on all the other sound cards in the machine too, which may not be what you want. "aplay -L" does list a 4 channel "surround40:CARD=Live,DEV=0" subdevice - if we can't reliably auto-select the right subdevice, how about at least letting the user select it from the GUI?
2. The EMU10K1 mixer routing is rather broken - the "Master" mixer channel only controls the front speakers, leaving the rear speakers to be controlled by the "Surround" channel. Thus the "Master" channel should really be renamed to "Front" and a real "Master" channel that controls everything should be added. It is a bit of a pain having to adjust 2 channels at the same time in order to change the volume. Similarly, the PCM channel only controls the front channels - surely this should control *all* the PCM channels?
3. gnome-sound-properties allows configuration of the "Default Mixer Tracks", but this does not affect which tracks mixer_applet2 (which is present in the system tray by default) controls. mixer_applet2 has its own configuration - some unification is needed here.
4. gnome-sound-properties is accessed under System -> Prefs -> Hardware -> Sound but it allows configuration of the system sounds. The system sounds have as little to do with your sound hardware as the desktop background has to do with your video hardware so it seems rather non-intuitive. The system sounds configuration should really be separated from the devices configuration and moved into somewhere like Look & Feel.
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