different from what? each other? you mean the confs (yeah that's why I pasted the links) or the actual cards (so that they derserve confs in different from SOMEHOW)? and emu10k1 doesn't even have "side". I know some of the confs use multi and some use front. that's my question/doubt, coz that seem to imply that some of their drivers are sort of "incomplete". and you haven't been really making any point/sense tbh. i don't feel like i should continue any discussion/conversation with you. it's out of the scope of my patch anyway. On 18 January 2016 at 17:54, Raymond Yau <superquad.vortex2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> >> Compare these these two conf: >> >> http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-lib.git;a=blob;f=src/conf/cards/SB-XFi.conf;h=eb2218bfdcc704e4bf39e0e0c21539ee7f9ff8f8;hb=HEAD >> >> http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-lib.git;a=blob;f=src/conf/cards/CA0106.conf;h=2f0eaf0afdc8dc826cbd3722b61cdb3310ca07f0;hb=HEAD >> >> BOTH of them shows that the four "stereo" ports they have exist as >> "device", but the SB-XFi.conf does not use the multi plugin to bind >> them to provide a surround PCM like CA0106.conf; instead it can simply >> use the "front" PCM, apparently. > > These two cards are different, emu10k1 have "rear" device, "centerlfe" and > "side" devices > > but they use multi plugin instead of surroundxx use pcm.front > > SB-XFi.pcm.surround40.0 cards.SB-XFi.pcm.front.0 > SB-XFi.pcm.surround51.0 cards.SB-XFi.pcm.front.0 > SB-XFi.pcm.surround71.0 cards.SB-XFi.pcm.front.0 _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel