more information, in case this helps anyone come up with a solution: I can toggle between hw:0 and hw:1 by setting the 'index' option on snd-usb-audio in my /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base. Depending on which of these I select, jack offers me hw:0 and hw:0,0 or hw:1 and hw:1,0 as my two choices in the hardware dialogue. Doing aplay --list-pcms gives this: default:CARD=E26 Emagic EMI 2 Default Audio Device front:CARD=E26,DEV=0 Emagic EMI 2 Front speakers surround40:CARD=E26,DEV=0 Emagic EMI 2 4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers surround41:CARD=E26,DEV=0 Emagic EMI 2 4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers surround50:CARD=E26,DEV=0 Emagic EMI 2 5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers surround51:CARD=E26,DEV=0 Emagic EMI 2 5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers surround71:CARD=E26,DEV=0 Emagic EMI 2 7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers iec958:CARD=E26,DEV=0 Emagic EMI 2 IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output null Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture) All of that looks suspicious to me: after all, I would expect to be seeing some capture channels as well as 6 playback? If anyone can point me towards a guide to configuring this stuff, or a guide for what does what in .asoundrc and .asoundrc.asoundconf, I'd be extremely grateful! All the best, Howard -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/emi-2-%7C-6%3A-after-upgrade-from-ubuntustudio-7.04-7.10%2C-alsa-works%2C-but-no-jack-tf4930380.html#a14134694 Sent from the linux-audio-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user