[LAU] RME HDSP Multiface and PulseAudio

[fons at kokkinizita.net]

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 04:55:39PM +0100, Steve Fosdick wrote:

> I have, for the moment, my RME HDSP Multiface at home along with a nice
> pair of Sennheiser headphones.  The headphones show up the shortcomings
> of the integrated audio I/F on the motherboard so I'd like to be able to
> route "normal" audio to the RME, e.g. use it for things like listening
> to music with rhtythmbox, which seems to mean persuading PulseAudio to
> output to it.
> 
> So far the PulseAudio sound preferences does not see the HDSP even after
> restarting PulseAudio.  The kernel module is loaded, the firmware loaded
> and the card works fine with jack and ardour.

Could be that PA just doesn't know what to do with a card
having so many channels. But you can run PA as a Jack
client (don't ask me how, I don't use PA at all).

Ciao,

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FA

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