Re: [PATCH 1/2] Remove definition for surround sound devices on ICE1712.

[John Rigg <aldev@sound-man.co.uk>]

 On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 02:49:53PM +0100, Diego E. 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
 > Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz> writes:
 > 
 > > Do you have seen M-Audio Delta 1010 ? The problem is that we have hardware 
 > > that can be used for surround output, but alsa-lib configuration files 
 > > cannot describe the restrictions in detail now.
 > 
 > I thought that was an ICE1724, rather than 1712; I was mistaken, sorry.
 > 
 > Still, as they are the devices are non-functional at least on my card,
 > and I'm ready to bet that the same would happen on the Delta 1010 given
 > that the number of channels is not coherent (you try to open surround71
 > as 8-channels and it'll fail because this minimal card has 10; if the
 > 1010 has the same amount of channels, it'll still fail).
 
 The ice1712 has 12 inputs and 10 outputs, regardless of how
 many physical in/outs your card has.
 
 Most of the ice1712 interfaces I've seen have 8 analogue in/outs
 along with S/PDIF in/out. I can't think of many stereo-only
 ice1712 cards (apart from the Audiophile 2496).
 
 John