2011/11/29 Cyrus Vafadari <cyrusv at mit.edu>: > I'm trying to use a bunch of sundcards (8 usb + 4 hdmi + 1 mobo) to control > different zones separately & combine them in cool ways. > > I'm having trouble getting pulse to recognize all of my soundcards' > existence. > > aplay -l recognizes all 13 cards, as does "pacmd list-cards", but pulse only > recognizes 10 of them (0-9). It seems to find them in the "pacmd dump", but > not in list-sinks. Cards and sinks are different things. A card can have zero or more sinks and zero or more sources. This can also change according to which profile is selected for the card.