From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Gabriel M. Beddingfield" Subject: Re: caiaq driver: audio 4 dj and jackd Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 13:22:42 -0800 Message-ID: <529CFA22.1050705@gmail.com> References: <529BF843.6000608@gmail.com> <529CAE8D.6020003@zonque.org> <529CB1F6.7070607@gmail.com> <201312021948.58167.gineera@aspect135.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-pb0-f51.google.com (mail-pb0-f51.google.com [209.85.160.51]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 173EE264F2C for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2013 22:22:45 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail-pb0-f51.google.com with SMTP id up15so19761901pbc.24 for ; Mon, 02 Dec 2013 13:22:44 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <201312021948.58167.gineera@aspect135.co.uk> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: Alan Horstmann , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Cc: Daniel Mack List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On 12/02/2013 11:48 AM, Alan Horstmann wrote: >> But solving this required editing asoundrc files (ugh) and casting >> several magic spells. Would be nice if it "just works." > > The same problem occurs with Portaudio on this device (or similar) - it would > be great to just be able to open one device with 4 channels, or 2 stereo > pairs. > > I had wondered whether it could be done by some card-specific definitions in > eg /usr/share/alsa/cards as is done particularly with PCI cards?? Anybody > any ideas? Good idea. > > Gabriel, could you post the multi pcm you worked out for this, as it may help > others? I can't take credit for figuring it out. Got it from here: http://ywwg.com/wordpress/?p=772 -gabe