Hi guys, I've been trying off and on for weeks now, but I can't get my RME HDSP9632 configured under ALSA properly. (Is it me or does ALSA really not make this an easy process? I can't find anywhere to get any feedback from the system on configuration errors. Hell, if you make a typo in the config file, you only find out because of some scary-looking output from aplay. The docs on the website seem to be quite old and often conflict with each other and I can't find any relevant man pages.) Anyhow, the card works out of the box, insofar as it lets one application play sound through it at a time. So I'm trying to do the common thing of configuring dmix to let multiple applications output sound at once. Nothing fancy, really! At least, at this point. My /etc/asound.conf file is as follows (pieced together from tuts and the like): ---------------------------- pcm.!default { type plug slave.pcm hdsp9632_dmix hint { show on description "Default device: Plugs into hdsp9632_dmix." } } ctl.hdsp9632_dmix { type hw card 0 } pcm.hdsp9632_dmix { type dmix ipc_perm 0660 ipc_key 1025 ipc_key_add_uid false slave { pcm "hw:0,0" rate 44100 channels 2 period_size 1024 buffer_size 4096 } bindings { 0 0 1 1 } hint { show on description "hdsp9632_dmix: The dmix plugin - plugs into hdsp9632." } } ---------------------------- Using this file, I get # aplay -L null Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture) default Default device: Plugs into hdsp9632_dmix. hdsp9632_dmix hdsp9632_dmix: The dmix plugin - plugs into hdsp9632. which is what I hope for. But, if I try and play something with vlc, I get an error message and "No AutoSync source for requested rate" comes up in dmesg. The card is currently set to clock master at the same sample rate as the audio (44.1kHz). If anyone can shed any light on what I'm doing wrong (and, ideally, some methodology on configuring ALSA which doesn't require scrabbling around in the dark!), I will be grateful until the end of time. Thanks a lot, Matt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user