On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 00:17 +0200, Johan Mattsson wrote: > Hi, > > I want to use JACK with two soundcards simultaneously, there is no need > to sync them so I thought it might be possible. I copied the example > multi .asoundrc from the ALSA documentation and started JACK. It seems > to work; all ports show up but when I connect anything JACK exits > immediately with some thing like: "Driver NT could not run drive cycle > jack main caught signal 12". > > Since I do not have internet connection i my studio it is a little > complicated to provide more info, but there are two soundcards one > Vortex something that uses au8820 and one Cirrus something card. > > Any idea what causes this? This cannot work. The .asoundrc you used was probably for a configuration with two identical cards. You should run one jackd for each card and use jack_diplomat to connect them. Lee