[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #707: No stereo (2 speaker) support for Turtle Beach Audio Advantage Roadie USB audio

[PulseAudio]

#707: No stereo (2 speaker) support for Turtle Beach Audio Advantage Roadie USB
audio
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 Reporter:  glutinous                                                         |       Owner:  lennart
     Type:  defect                                                            |      Status:  new    
Milestone:                                                                    |   Component:  daemon 
 Keywords:  stereo surround channel alsa turtle beach audio advantage roadie  |  
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 When playing surround sound movies (in VLC or Totem), it keeps playing
 them over the 8/6 channels, rather than 2 channels (since I only have a
 2.1 speaker configuration). It worked fine back when I was using Ubuntu
 9.04, but stopped working since I upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10.

 Switching to ALSA directly (in VLC at least) fixes the problem. So it
 seems to be something to do with PulseAudio.

 {{{
 $ cat /etc/issue
 Ubuntu 9.10 \n \l
 }}}

 {{{
 $ uname -a
 Linux pepe 2.6.31-14-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 16 14:05:01 UTC 2009
 x86_64 GNU/Linux
 }}}

 {{{
 $ cat /proc/asound/version
 Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.20.
 }}}

 {{{
 $ cat /proc/asound/cards
  1 [Audio          ]: USB-Audio - USB Audio
                       USB Audio at usb-0000:00:0b.0-2, full speed
 }}}

 {{{
 $ pulseaudio --version
 pulseaudio 0.9.19
 }}}

 {{{
 $ pacmd
 Welcome to PulseAudio! Use "help" for usage information.
 >>> list-sinks
 1 sink(s) available.
   * index: 4
         name: <alsa_output.usb-10f5_USB_Audio-00.analog-surround-71>
         driver: <module-alsa-card.c>
         flags: HARDWARE HW_MUTE_CTRL HW_VOLUME_CTRL LATENCY
 DYNAMIC_LATENCY
         state: SUSPENDED
         suspend cause: IDLE
         priority: 9049
         volume: 0: 100% 1: 100% 2: 100% 3: 100% 4: 100% 5: 100% 6: 100% 7:
 100%
                 balance 0.00
         base volume: 100%
         volume steps: 8192
         muted: no
         current latency: 0.00 ms
         max request: 31 KiB
         max rewind: 1024 KiB
         monitor source: 6
         sample spec: s16le 8ch 44100Hz
         channel map: front-left,front-right,rear-left,rear-right,front-
 center,lfe,side-left,side-right
                      Surround 7.1
         used by: 0
         linked by: 1
         configured latency: 0.00 ms; range is 46.00 .. 1486.08 ms
         card: 2 <alsa_card.usb-10f5_USB_Audio-00>
         module: 20
         properties:
                 alsa.resolution_bits = "16"
                 device.api = "alsa"
                 device.class = "sound"
                 alsa.class = "generic"
                 alsa.subclass = "generic-mix"
                 alsa.name = "USB Audio"
                 alsa.id = "USB Audio"
                 alsa.subdevice = "0"
                 alsa.subdevice_name = "subdevice #0"
                 alsa.device = "0"
                 alsa.card = "1"
                 alsa.card_name = "USB Audio"
                 alsa.long_card_name = "USB Audio at usb-0000:00:0b.0-2,
 full speed"
                 alsa.driver_name = "snd_usb_audio"
                 device.bus_path = "pci-0000:00:0b.0-usb-0:2:1.0"
                 sysfs.path =
 "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0/sound/card1"
                 udev.id = "usb-10f5_USB_Audio-00"
                 device.bus = "usb"
                 device.vendor.id = "10f5"
                 device.vendor.name = "Turtle Beach"
                 device.product.id = "0200"
                 device.product.name = "Audio Advantage Roadie"
                 device.serial = "10f5_USB_Audio"
                 device.string = "surround71:1"
                 device.buffering.buffer_size = "1048576"
                 device.buffering.fragment_size = "524288"
                 device.access_mode = "mmap+timer"
                 device.profile.name = "analog-surround-71"
                 device.profile.description = "Analog Surround 7.1"
                 device.description = "Audio Advantage Roadie Analog
 Surround 7.1"
                 alsa.mixer_name = "USB Mixer"
                 alsa.components = "USB10f5:0200"
                 module-udev-detect.discovered = "1"
                 device.icon_name = "audio-card-usb"
 }}}

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