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 >> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20111130/0574d7c1/attachment-0001.htm>
