On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 22:34 +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 08:09:01PM +0200, Martin Horn wrote: > > > I am sending another request because I think this describes my problem > > better, Thanks to everybody reading! > > > > I want to use a RME Multiface soundcard with PCMCIA Cardbus Card on a Dell > > Notebook with Ubuntu. > > I installed all alsa drivers and other available tools for the RME card > > successfully and if I do: > > > > aplay -D plughw:1 track1.wav > > Try -D hw:1 this won't work. the hw:N device requires the input format to match the h/w caps (channel count, SR, bit depth, interleaved, etc. etc.) my understanding was that ALSA's default handling of routing an N channel signal to M channels where N>M is that the N get mapped to all M in a repeating fashion. maybe this has been changed, and you just get the first N channels, with the rest silent. martin, there is no way to use just ALSA device addressing to specify specific channels. you would have to set up an ALSA pseudo-device with a "route" specification to do this. its probably not what you want. as was mentioned, just using JACK will be much easier. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
