[LAD] multiple ICE1712 sound cards (as one huge soundcard)

[Christian Schoenebeck]

Thanks Julien for the quick reply!

I just realized that ALSA only detects one of the two envy cards. For 
example "aplay -l" just shows this:

	**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
	card 0: DSP24 [Hoontech SoundTrack Audio DSP24], device 0: ICE1712 multi
	[ICE1712 multi]
	Subdevices: 0/1
	Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
	card 0: DSP24 [Hoontech SoundTrack Audio DSP24], device 1: ICE1712 consumer 
	[ICE1712 consumer]
	Subdevices: 1/1
	Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
	card 0: DSP24 [Hoontech SoundTrack Audio DSP24], device 2: ICE1712 consumer 	
	(DS) [ICE1712 consumer (DS)]
	Subdevices: 6/6
	Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
	Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
	Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
	Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
	Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
	Subdevice #5: subdevice #5

Which equals output when only one card is plugged in. But "lspci" shows both 
cards:

	02:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies Inc. ICE1712 [Envy24] 	
	PCI Multi-Channel I/O Controller (rev 02)
	02:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies Inc. ICE1712 [Envy24] 	
	PCI Multi-Channel I/O Controller (rev 02)

Do I probably need a more recent ALSA version or a specific patch or 
something? Currently I'm using ALSA 1.0.12 drivers.

CU
Christian

Es geschah am Wednesday 24 September 2008 als Julien Claassen schrieb:
> Christian!
>    Did you try ALSA only. It looks like an alsa problem. So tests with
> aplay or something might be helpful. You know, that aplay can be launched
> with a verbosity switch? I believe you can put -vv (or VV, not sure) there
> to get even more output.
>    With aplay you should playback a file with enough channels, so ALSA
> doesn't get confused with channel-counts in audiofile and PCM device.
>    That might only be a first pointer, but hopefully of some help.
>    Kindest regards
>            Julien
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