[Bug 26483] Re: Ubuntu5.10 not configured for Alsa device:surround51; Alsa-esd incompatibilities.

[Daniel T Chen]

This bug report is much too confusing and attempts to request assistance on multiple issues.

Here's the breakdown:

1) The major gripe with surround sound is resolved by using plug:surround51 (_not_ surround51) as the virtual alsa device.
2) Audio apps blocking on busy /dev/dsp or virtual alsa devices due to a "long idle timeout for esd" has already been resolved; that's bug #34818.

Neither of these bugs have anything to do with gst*, so I'm reassigning to alsa-lib and closing the bug, since a correct solution for [1] was in place prior to the bug report. [2] has been worked around already.

** Changed in: gst-plugins0.8 gstreamer0.8-esd (Ubuntu)
Sourcepackagename: gst-plugins0.8 => alsa-lib
Binarypackagename: gstreamer0.8-esd => None
     Priority: Medium => None
       Status: Unconfirmed => Rejected

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Ubuntu5.10 not configured for Alsa device:surround51;Alsa-esd incompatibilities.
https://launchpad.net/bugs/26483