[linux-audio-user] 2 questions about alsa and ardour

Hello again - this may be a better question for the ardour list, but I can't get subscribed to that, so... two questions: 1) Does anybody know - does Ardour support assigning tracks to outputs other than just 1 and 2 - is this an Alsa issue? To explain, my goal is to have 24 tracks of audio on Ardour, and not mix in ardour, to split the tracks - track 1 goes out on output 1, track 2 on output 2, 3 on output 3, etc. (and the same with the inputs, if possible), so that I can mix on my behringer ddx3216 32 channel digital mixer - this is one major reason why I have an HDSP 9652, because it has 24 channels of ADAT litepipe i/o, which I'm taking into the board... but I don't know if Alsa supports this, and I don't know if Ardour supports this. All I know is I'm configuring the system, and I just got the HDSP to make sound for the first time, and when I open up ardour to see how things are, I expect to be able to go to the routing screen off the track, and see alsa have 24 outputs, but still I only see two...I don't know if I'm not yet properly configured, or if my goal isn't even supported... 2) when I start Jack (right now anyway), I've been using: jackd -R -d alsa -p 2048 and it starts just fine, and gives me this message: You appear to be using the ALSA software "plug" layer, probably a result of using the "default" ALSA device. This is less efficient than it could be. Consider using a ~/.asoundrc file to define a hardware audio device rather than using the plug layer I have a feeling this has something to do with question 1 - am I right? what does it have to do with it? Thanks in advance for any info! :) ps: for those that were following my HDSP 9652 thread: yep, I got sound. I downgraded the firmware and have applied Thomas's patch. What's weird, though, is that somewhere along the way, I don't remember when, I got the new kernel from Planet. apparently I kept the old one (the one that ends in acpi), and was booting with that, and wasn't getting sound, and hadn't yet really got a clean rebuild of the alsa drivers. I was working on that, and had emailed the planet list with some questions about that. then, I rebooted and started what I THINK is the new kernel (it ends in .rh90 on my boot loader) - it didn't want to deal with the ethernet card, so I couldn't get online *laugh* - but I was deleting a command in terminal and all of a sudden for the first time heard a "bloop". so I played back some stuff using audacity, hydrogen and ardour, and sure enough, sound. understandably, things were just coming out every channel, and audacity played back some low res (22khz) sounds all fuzzy (which is expected, since I don't think the HDSP likes low res audio like that), but there was sound. I guess the patch and new alsa drivers were talking with the new kernel but not the old. now I figure I need to just clean out all the kernels (except the original redhat one, you know, so I can run), and rebuild all of it. problem is, I'm afraid of doing that with the new kernel, for fear that the ethernet problem isn't connected to my dirty messy screwed up builds, and just has to do with the new kernel... -- -------------- Aaron Trumm NQuit www.nquit.com --------------