On 10/20/2015 01:03 AM, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > These devices do not exist in your list. This is a bug in PortAudio; it > tries to open a fixed list of device names, and does not suppress error > messages. Ah! So these devices would sit unused(/undefined) if PortAudio wasn't trying to use them "on demand"? > Try something like this: > > pcm.!surround51 = does_not_exist; Applying (re)definitions of this kind does indeed prune down the list. Using the listaudevs again with the new asound.conf: " $ listaudevs ALSA lib pcm.c:2267:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM does_not_exist ALSA lib pcm.c:2267:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM does_not_exist ALSA lib pcm.c:2267:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM does_not_exist ALSA lib pcm.c:2267:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM does_not_exist ALSA lib pcm.c:2267:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM does_not_exist ALSA lib pcm.c:2267:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM does_not_exist ALSA lib pcm.c:2267:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM does_not_exist ALSA lib pcm.c:2267:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM does_not_exist ALSA lib pcm.c:2267:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM does_not_exist ALSA lib pcm.c:2267:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM does_not_exist Device Input Output Name 0 2 2 HDA Intel PCH: VT1802 Analog (hw:0,0) 1 0 8 HDA Intel PCH: HDMI 0 (hw:0,3) 2 128 128 sysdefault 7 0 8 hdmi 8 0 128 main 9 0 2 dmix *10 0 128 default " But you are saying that because of PortAudio, there's no way to suppress these messages, nor undefine these definitions outside of striking lines out of /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf? Is that correct? With Thanks, \\ Arthur ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user