Hello list, I've successfully installed ALSA drivers 1.0.10rc3 on my server, having two Terratec PHASE 28 cards. Each Terratec PHASE 28 has 8 audio outs, which can be combined into 4 stereo out channels. I want to configure ALSA in such a manner that will allow me to play different sound in each of the four stereo channels. I.e. I want to combine the 8 outs into pairs and use them separately. I think I've solved it, but: 1. I'm puzzled why the amixer output for each card doesn't show I have four stereo out channels but have Front, Rear and Side as stereo, and Center and LFE as mono. Does this concern the ice1724 module? 2. When I play sound through the newly configured PCM devices it's volume is low even if I've configured it with amixer to 100%. Can you please tell me if my configuration is correct - does it combine each of the 8 out channels into 4 pcm devices? Does each of these 4 pcm devices represent one of the Front, Rear, Side, Center/LFE channels (I want to control the volume through amixer). I want to use it with mplayer - for instance `mplayer -ao alsa:device=card11 song1.mp3` and `mplayer -ao alsa:device=card12 song2.mp3`, etc. Here's my .asoundrc sample for one of the cards: pcm.card1 {     type dmix     ipc_key 321456     ipc_key_add_uid true     slave {         pcm "hw:1"         rate 44100         format S32_LE         period_time 0         period_size 1024         buffer_size 8192         channels 8     }     bindings {         0 0         1 1         2 2         3 3         4 4         5 5         6 6         7 7     } } pcm.card11 {     type plug     slave {         pcm "card1"         channels 8     }     ttable.0.0 1     ttable.1.1 1 } pcm.card12 {     type plug     slave {         pcm "card1"         channels 8     }     ttable.0.2 1     ttable.1.3 1 } pcm.card13 {     type plug     slave {         pcm "card1"         channels 8     }     ttable.0.4 1     ttable.1.5 1 } pcm.card14 {     type plug     slave {         pcm "card1"         channels 8     }     ttable.0.6 1     ttable.1.7 1 } Thanks for the help. -- Cyberly yours, Petar Nedyalkov Devoted Orbitel Fan :-) PGP ID: 7AE45436 PGP Public Key: http://bu.orbitel.bg/pgp/bu.asc PGP Fingerprint: 7923 8D52 B145 02E8 6F63 8BDA 2D3F 7C0B 7AE4 5436