Hi, I wanted to use my multi channel soundcard (Delta1010/ ice1712) with two (or more) (ALSA-capable) applications at the same time. For example Audacious plays something my kids want to hear while I watch a movie through xine, listening on headphones. The only way I could manage this setup was a 3 stage configuration: # first occupy all 8 channels with dmix pcm.dmixer { type dmix slave { pcm "hw:M1010,0" … channels 8 } } # second provide an automatic conversion pcm.mixplug { type plug slave { pcm "dmixer" } } # third, primary stereo pcm, routing to outputs 1&2 pcm.primary { type route slave { pcm "mixplug" channels 8 } ttable.0.0 1 ttable.1.1 1 } # third, secondary stereo pcm, routing to outputs 3&4 pcm.secondary { type route slave { pcm "mixplug" channels 8 } ttable.0.2 1 ttable.1.3 1 } I also tried to setup primary and secondary as plug by using plug's ttable. That only gave me errors during configuration, PCM unusable. Any hints how to accomplish this only with plug? Second: I really gave my best to get my pcms listed (aplay -L, audacious device list). Finally I found out, to either set something in /usr/share/alsa-configuration to on (hints and another parameter, both being off on standard Gentoo installation) or to simply use hint-section in asound.conf. Did I miss the bold section in https://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Asoundrc or is there none, that omitting a hint-section might result in incomplete pcm listing? Regards, Benno _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user