[PlanetCCRMA] Intel HDA and Alsa/Jack

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 18:11 -0800, pyrael wrote:
> Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> > Just in case you could look at "cat /proc/asound/devices" just to see if
> > the card has any subdevices that provide more channels but I doubt
> > that's the case. 
> > 
> Fernando,
> Thank for the reply, I tried your suggestion and this is the output:
> 
> [root@pyrael ~]# cat /proc/asound/devices
>   2:        : timer
>   3:        : sequencer
>   4: [ 0- 2]: digital audio capture
>   5: [ 0- 1]: digital audio playback

second playback subdevice...

>   6: [ 0- 1]: digital audio capture
>   7: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback

first subdevice, the default

>   8: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture
>   9: [ 0]   : control
> 
> I have no idea what this means LOL . I see 3 capture and  2 playback, but I
> have no Idea what is what. 

What you could try is starting jack with "hw:0,1" instead of "hw:0".
That will try to use the second subdevice, if it starts you will see
what it has in terms of channels... Same applies for the input. 

-- Fernando