[pulseaudio-tickets] [Bug 94165] Soundblaster (hw:0) is not seen by PA, works in Yast

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94165

--- Comment #10 from Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi> ---
(In reply to Jogchum Reitsma from comment #9)
> The subdevice is blocked by the timidity-daemon:
> 
> lsof /dev/snd/pcm*
> lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfsd-fuse file system /run/user/1000/gvfs
>       Output information may be incomplete.
> COMMAND  PID USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF  NODE NAME
> timidity 709 root  mem    CHR  116,3          11646 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
> timidity 709 root    4u   CHR  116,3      0t0 11646 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
> 
> I could disable this daemon, but I would rather keep it running...

It seems to be running as root. Can you run it as your normal user instead?
Hopefully timidity isn't hardcoded to use hw:0 or some similar alsa device, so
that it can run on top of pulseaudio.

> From the last comment from Raymond I understand that this habit of
> pulseaudio to disregard the device if only one of the 32 subdevices is in
> use, is undesirable. 
> 
> Am I right in that conclusion?

PulseAudio doesn't support taking advantage of hardware mixing when it's
available. There aren't very strong arguments for adding that support either,
so such functionality isn't planned to be added.

> I have yet to figure out what the extins and extouts from the device are.
> Not sure if I can manage to do so this evening.

FWIW, I don't know what extins and extouts are, and how they are relevant here.

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