Schmidt, Christian Thorge wrote: > I currently employ SoundBlaster cards, aka CA0106 for audio-out setups > of 2 to 9 channels (in groups of three, 3,6,9) as the CA0106 supports > multiple ALSA output devices on one card quite well (aka. multiple > mixers). > > It appears as though the CA0106 is harder and harder to get - which > soundcard would you recommend that has about three actual mixers (so > that I can, for example, start multiple mplayer instances to output on > hw0,0 / hw0,1 / hw0,2) There is no other chip with this silly design. If you want to play multiple streams through one multichannel card, you have to merge them in software (i.e., use virtual devices based on dmix or dshare). > is an internal PCI or PCIexpress card and needs no further breakout > cables? Nowadays, there aren't that many sound cards to begin with. Use Xonar DS/DSX/D1/DX. Regards, Clemens ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user