28 Apr
2009
28 Apr
'09
11:22 p.m.
On Tuesday 28 April 2009 19:34:52 Lennart Poettering wrote:
all the best,
drew
On Wed, 29.04.09 00:18, Fons Adriaensen
(fons(a)kokkinizita.net) wrote:
Well, I don't care how I would do it so long as I can finally find a way to do
it.
I want to load up 1 box with 4 sound cards (preferably el cheapo USB cards)
and hoot the outputs of 4 radios to the inputs of the cards. (I prefer
identical cards if possible.) I want to tune each radio to a different
station and record each 24x7. now I want the stations to record consistently.
So far I have not run across a solution that didn't assume different cards.
Any ideas anyone/
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:59:36PM +0200, Lennart
Poettering wrote:
The point is that if you plug in a new sound card for which you
haven't configured such a modprobe.conf line it will take up the first
available index which might then collide with your configuration for
later plugged in devices. We had quite a few bugs about this
reported. This problem is amplified by the fact that we now initialize
drivers in parallel at bootup.
Doing these things with indexes is just broken. It's like network
interfaces. Everybody learned to use names for them instead of the
low-level ifindex. Now it's time people learn the same for audio
devices.
The naming system exists for a reason, i.e. to allow you to easily
identify devices without remembering any cryptic numbers. It also
allows you to change the name during runtime via sysfs in case you
want to fix them up.
On Tue, 28.04.09 23:36, Fons Adriaensen
(fons(a)kokkinizita.net) wrote:
I know, but
0. I've had flexible hotplugging setups before,
so what's the point ? Hello all,
I'm Running F10 and I have these lines in /etc/modprobe.conf:
options snd cards_limit=4
alias snd-card-0 snd_intel8x0
alias snd-card-1 snd_mpu401
alias snd-card-2 snd_ice1712
options snd-card-0 index=0
options snd-card-1 index=1
options snd-card-2 index=2
but the order of the devices is always the
inverse: ice1712, mpu401, intel8x0
Since F10 ALSA card indexes are not stable anymore to allow flexible
hotplugging setups. 1. I *want* stable indices, and
Why? 2. according to the info on the CCRMA site the
modproble lines above should give me stable
indices. If not, has ALSA been mutilated to
ignore these lines ?
No, we didn't change ALSA like that.
Lennart