Comment 20 for bug 440465

Real problem is not just the mixer :(
Pulseaudio don't work with 5.1 sound properly. When switch to 5.1 sound from default mixer (this one, the new mixer and pulseaudio installed) I hear sound artefacts (just adjust volume up or down and ugliest sound is here). Audacious play ugly too when pulseadio is installed ( enjoy alsa plugin, volume up or down to reproduce). VLC player too have issue when pulse is installed, switching output to alsa, not the solution, menus with multichanel audio switch is inactive ... and maybe more apps have similar problems when pulse is installed. When remove pulseaudio apps working correct with alsa, except totem - totem has no sound :(. This affect totem-mozilla and everything in browser is broken (video, audio, online tv ...)

01:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 0a)

I think in debian sid have a patch for this (but I'm not sure, in debian never had probelms with alsa)
 totem (2.28.1-2) unstable; urgency=low

   [ Emilio Pozuelo Monfort ]
   * debian/patches/02_use_gconf_audio_sink.patch:
     - Don't try to use PulseAudio inconditionally, use the user defined
       one from GConf instead. Closes: #548260.

   [ Josselin Mouette ]
   * Add missing shlibs:Depends in totem-mozilla.

 -- Josselin Mouette <email address hidden> Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:29:50 +0200