> Other people have asked this before, but most such threads seem to > always come to "just use Jack." Is it impossible to directly access > these devices from Alsa? I'm not wanting anything fancy here. If I do > have to write a .asoundrc, where do I get the information that HDSPMixer > seems to innately know about how my channels map to the hardware so I > can create one? > > I solve this problem using an ALSA+PulseAudio+Jackd+ALSA sandwich, so that ALSA-only apps talk to ALSA which delivers to Pulse (which hands directly to Jack), non-Jack apps which do Pulse talk to Pulse (still handing to Jack), and everything else talks directly to Jack. Here's a summary: http://linuxlive.joshuacorps.org/?p=57 J.E.B. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user