[alsa-devel] caiaq driver: audio 4 dj and jackd

[Gabriel M. Beddingfield]

On 12/02/2013 11:48 AM, Alan Horstmann wrote:
>> But solving this required editing asoundrc files (ugh) and casting
>> several magic spells.  Would be nice if it "just works."
>
> The same problem occurs with Portaudio on this device (or similar) - it would
> be great to just be able to open one device with 4 channels, or 2 stereo
> pairs.
>
> I had wondered whether it could be done by some card-specific definitions in
> eg /usr/share/alsa/cards as is done particularly with PCI cards??  Anybody
> any ideas?

Good idea.

>
> Gabriel, could you post the multi pcm you worked out for this, as it may help
> others?

I can't take credit for figuring it out.  Got it from here:

http://ywwg.com/wordpress/?p=772

-gabe