[LAU] RME HDSP Multiface and PulseAudio

[Paul Davis]

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Steve Fosdick <sjflists at btinternet.com> 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.

no, it doesn't. gstreamer has a jack plugin, and you can just have RB
send directly to JACK with it. just set either your gstreamer
properties or system sound properties to use jackaudiosink the
gstreamer plugin has its own issues, the most annoying of which being
that it disconnects and reconnects for every song, but i use it to
listen to my music collection and i-radio all day while doing ardour
development.

as fons note, pulseaudio really doesn't have a clue what to do with a
card like the HDSP. it could be coerced into doing something
reasonable, but its hardly worth it.