Jonathan E. Brickman wrote: > My sound card, an Audiotrak Prodigy HD2, has alphanumeric name "HD2". > qjackctl tells me that it has subdevices 0 ("Audiotrak Prodigy HD2"), This is not a subdevice but the card. > 0.0 ("ICE1724"), and 0.1 ("ICE1724 IEC958"). These are not subdevices but devices. > Right now I am using the alphanumeric name "hw:HD2" as device name in > qjackctl, it has given me considerably more stability than any numeric > name -- and it made me wonder. Is there an alphanumeric standard for > subdevices? The "hw" plugin takes several parameters: the card, the device, and the subdevice. "hw:HD2" specifies only the card; the default device is usually 0. > Can I point to "HD2.0" and "HD2.1" and expect it to work in general? If you separate the parameters with a comma, like "hw:HD2,0", yes. HTH Clemens ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user