Comment 163 for bug 445849

@xtKnight

I did a clean install (for the >10th time) 10.04 AMD64

First thing I did was to run your script. The following line appeared last:

E: main.c: ANDY_FIX: buggy SIMD optimizations disabled.

in your script, you tell to hit ctrl+c. so did I, and the same line appeared again. then I set the sound to 5.1 in PA Applet and played a simple sound file and here is the result:

E: main.c: ANDY_FIX: buggy SIMD optimizations disabled.
E: alsa-sink.c: ALSA woke us up to write new data to the device, but there was actually nothing to write!
E: alsa-sink.c: Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver 'snd_emu10k1'. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers.
E: alsa-sink.c: We were woken up with POLLOUT set -- however a subsequent snd_pcm_avail() returned 0 or another value < min_avail.

Also, synaptics reports libpulse-dev as broken.

I've included a file with some videos of what's happening.

PA.ogv is my config. In the application tab, I first play a mp3 in 5.1 mode and no sound comes out. Then I set the sound to analog strereo and sound is back.
pa-systray.ogv is what's happening to the PA icon when in 5.1 mode and trying to preview an audio file. No sound.

Another interresting thing is that if I put autospawn=no in pulse/client.conf and start pulseaudio &, i cannot get to the PA applet: the icon stays with three dashes. If I remove the autospawn, pulseaudio restarts by itself and the two right parentesis are back so I can get into pulseaudio applet and fiddle with settings.

So bottom line: your patch makes my 5.1 unusable with only stereo left working.

should there be anything else I could do, just let me know.