"list-sinks" doesn't match "aplay -l"

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I've now attached the verbose log file of a successful and unsuccessful
sink.



On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Cyrus Vafadari <cyrusv at mit.edu> wrote:

> All my stereo soundcards are identical, which is why I am confused by them
> only showing their sources and not their sinks. Their directories in
> /proc/asound/ are also nearly identical.
>
> I think this must be a bug. is there a way to manually command pulse to
> load output profiles on boot?
>
>
>
> They work fine split up on another computer, but when I put them all
> together on the same computer, pulse somehow fails to give 2 of the cards
> an output profile:
>
>     profiles:
>         input:analog-mono: Analog Mono Input (priority 1)
>         off: Off (priority 0)
>
> as opposed to
>
>     profiles:
>         output:analog-stereo: Analog Stereo Output (priority 6000)
>         output:analog-stereo+input:analog-mono: Analog Stereo Output +
> Analog Mono Input (priority 6001)
>         output:iec958-stereo: Digital Stereo Duplex (IEC958) (priority
> 5500)
>         output:iec958-stereo+input:analog-mono: Digital Stereo (IEC958)
> Output + Analog Mono Input (priority 5501)
>         input:analog-mono: Analog Mono Input (priority 1)
>         off: Off (priority 0)
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 4:43 AM, Maarten Bosmans <mkbosmans at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> From your output it seems that some cards only support an input
>> profile, hence no sinks show up for those.
>>
>> Maarten
>>
>
>
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