Bug#815787: May be a kernel problem not a pulseaudio one?

[Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn@axis.com>]

Background: https://bugs.debian.org/815787

"Until recently the Sound Blaster Live! card in my workstation worked
fine. Sometime recently it has stopped working."

On Sat, 27 Feb 2016, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sat, 2016-02-27 at 10:39 +0100, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote:
> >
> > No mention of that in the changelog.
>
> Yes there is:
>
>   * [amd64] mm,nvdimm: Disable ZONE_DMA; enable ZONE_DEVICE, NVDIMM_PFN
>     - This disables drivers for some AC'97 sound cards

Alright, but not obvious to me.

So, what is to do about that?  Stay on 4.3.5-1 for as long as I'm
happy with keeping this nice, working, piece of electronix:

	Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07)
	Subsystem: Creative Labs SBLive! Player 5.1

vintage 1999, or throw it away?  Do things need to be killed before
they're dead?  Oh, well.  Rethoric questions, maybe.  I do have the
money to add some more stuff to the junk yard :(

I once heard a story about a printer that started a movement.
Hopefully, the history might repeat itself.


Cheers,

-- 
Cristian