On Sat, 2010-05-08 at 18:23 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > > > > Now that would be shocking I'd say. Since Suse 8.0 the ICE1712 > was > always the most reliable chipset one could possibly find for > Linux. So > that would be a major regression and should be a show-stopper > for alsa. > > BUT: the link points to a bug that affects puls audio and it > affects it > with a EWS88MT wich is one of the not-so typical ICE1712-cards > like the > EWX or the MAudio Audiophile and Delta-Series. > > So how about these cards and alsa/jack? Any trouble out there > with > bleeding-edge distros? > > > my reading of this (and the related ALSA bug report) is that this is a > Pulse-only bug, because its related to Pulse's attempt to provide a > mapping of whatever-it-is-that-the-hw-provides into > standard-things-that-users-can-know-and-love. > > JACK will just use the channels as single, undifferentiated channels > and doesn't care about their names, function,etc. etc. > > i could be wrong in my assessment. I think you are correct. Pulse points to alsa as the culprit, alsa ignores the issue, it may _not_ be an issue for alsa, I don't know. The end result is that it has not been fixed and it has been quite a while. I have a workaround in place for my machines at ccrma... -- Fernando _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
