On Wed, 16.07.08 16:12, Colin Guthrie (gmane at colin.guthr.ie) wrote: > > Kostas Gerontis wrote: > > Hey :) Thanks a lot for taking the time to reply :) > > The irc channel seems kind of... too quiet, so i'll also give the > > Hehe, it's either feast of famine.... a lively party or a lone > tumbleweed! :p > > > pastebin link here... I've highlighted the error messages: > > > > http://bcm.pastebin.com/m13401731 > > > > I got kind of confused when trying to reach to a conclusion. > > Not too sure what to make of it myself but hopefully someone more > familiar with the h/w can help. The device has 12 channels. 12ch sound cards are not really supported by ALSA. You can use them as naked PCM devices, but they have no well defined channel mapping in alsa. This is a serious limitation of ALSA. The current git version of PA will synthesize a channel map for devices like this. Older versions (like yours) just fail. But even in the git versions, it might get those synthetic mappings wrong. I.e. rear and lfe swapped and stuff like this. You can make this work by disabling automatic configuration via module-hal and instead manually loading module-alsa-sink with a manual channel map. (see wiki) Please file a bug to upstream ALSA, requesting to support a device string like "front:0" or "surround51:0" or suchlike for your device. Since the ALSA BTS is pretty much ignored by ALSA upstream, you might want to do this via posting to their ML. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
