On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 05:44:36PM +0100, ailo wrote: > On 12/14/2010 12:28 PM, Florian Faber wrote: > >Robin, > > > >>OOPS: I've just realized that two of your devices are identical. > >>I don't think the name will help in that case. IIRC there's away to use > >>a UID or BUS like /dev/snd/by-path/.. but I don't remember the details > >>just now. > > Actually, the cards do have different names, now when I think of it. > It's the chip that is the same. > Still, it feels better to use an unique id. Perhaps /dev/snd/by-path > is a good way to do that. If I understand correctly, this is the > path to the actual pci-slot (which is not likely to change between > boots). > > > > >If the ICE-cards have serial numbers, it could be an effective solution > >to add it to the card's name. RME cards are quite commonly used in > >bundles, so I added this feature: > > > ># cat /proc/asound/cards > > 0 [default ]: HDSPM - RME MADI_c61f8e > > RME MADI S/N 0xc61f8e at 0xfdef0000, irq 16 > > > >It also allows to identify cards in the LAN. In infrastructure setups > >the host no longer is the top level namespace. > > > > > >Flo > > > With my limited understanding the only thing I can discover here is: > > 0 [default ] > > is usually : > > 0 [nameofcard ] > > So, I'm afraid I can't read further into how to use the serial > number to identify the card. > > > Starting jack by using > > jackd -d alsa -d 'hw:nameofcard' > > may solve my problem. > > I'm looking on how to sync the two cards, delta-1010 and delta-66. > AFAIK, no matter the method, it seems one must sync them using spdif > (don't think this is needed on Windows, but perhaps that has to do > with proprietary drivers?). > > There is this method: > http://www.jrigg.co.uk/linuxaudio/ice1712multi.html > > and one that I haven't tried yet is using alsa_in and alsa_out as > mentioned here: > http://trac.jackaudio.org/wiki/WalkThrough/User/AlsaInOut > > If someone has some experience in using multiple cards, I won't mind > a pointer or two. the wiki page on alsa_io is outdated. see the manpage. if you run jackd with a period size of 128... running alsa_out -d hw:1 -p 128 should give you good results with jack >= 0.118 > > -- > ailo > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user -- torben Hohn _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
