On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 12:07 -0800, reuben firmin wrote: > As part of my experimenting to get both of my cards playing the same > stream, I defined a configuration in asoundrc using the multi plugin, > per the docs here > http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/pcm_plugins.html > > The complete asoundrc follows. Testing using aplay -vD XXX myfile.wav, > where XXX is the pcm name, usb, desktop and default work fine; > however, multi and ttable both give an error: > > aplay: set_params:906: Channels count non available > > What does this mean and how can I fix it? You can't use the multi plugin this way. The two sound cards will drift out of sync over time. Lee