Now that would be shocking I'd say. Since Suse 8.0 the ICE1712 was
always the most reliable chipset one could possibly find for Linux. So
that would be a major regression and should be a show-stopper for alsa.

BUT: the link points to a bug that affects puls audio and it affects it
with a EWS88MT wich is one of the not-so typical ICE1712-cards like the
EWX or the MAudio Audiophile and Delta-Series.

So how about these cards and alsa/jack? Any trouble out there with
bleeding-edge distros?

my reading of this (and the related ALSA bug report) is that this is a Pulse-only bug, because its related to Pulse's attempt to provide a mapping of whatever-it-is-that-the-hw-provides into standard-things-that-users-can-know-and-love.

JACK will just use the channels as single, undifferentiated channels and doesn't care about their names, function,etc. etc.

i could be wrong in my assessment.

--p