Sheldon Hearn wrote: > I gutted /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf so that it just loads > /etc/asound.conf Aaargh! That file contains all the default definitions. Please restore the original from the alsa-lib package. > Is there a way I can get debugging output from ALSA while it processes > its configuration, so that I can try to make sense of this? Unfortunately not. > pcm.multi { > type multi; > slaves.a.pcm "hw:0,0"; > [...] > } > > pcm.multi { > type hw; > card 0; > } > > The second pcm.multi stanza redefines the device called multi using > the hw plugin. invalidating the configuration statements in the first > stanza. Actually, this _merges_ both definition; the result is the same as: pcm.multi { type hw slaves.a.pcm "hw:0,0" ... card 0 } Regards, Clemens ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user