25 Jun
2010
25 Jun
'10
7:21 p.m.
From: Paul Davis <paul(a)linuxaudiosystems.com>
Subject: Re: [LAU] RME HDSP Multiface and PulseAudio
To: "Steve Fosdick" <sjflists(a)btinternet.com>
Cc: linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org
Date: Friday, June 25, 2010, 12:52 PM
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 11:55 AM,
Steve Fosdick <sjflists(a)btinternet.com>
wrote:
I have a system with an RME HDSP card (Multiface II system) and I faced the exact same
issue. So I hacked an ALSA 2 Jack bridge:
http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Jack_and_Loopback_device_as_Alsa-to-Jack_…
Works really good for what I am using it for. No pulseaudio, no gstreamer, pure ALSA
only.
Good luck :)
J.
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.