Pulseaudio : lots of issues, how can I help?

[Bill Crawford]

On 11/09/2008, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa at gmail.com> wrote:

> * Sounblaster Live 5.1 PCI -- has full 6 channel audio before, I had
> for a short while after enabling it as per the pulseaudio wiki, but no
> more

If it's one of the SBs with multiple hardware channels, unless you are
likely to want >32 separate apps pumping out sound at once, disable PA
and just access the card through ALSA directly. It's worked ok for me
:o)