On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 04:39:44PM +0100, Roger Koot wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've got a Terratec EWX 24/96.
> searching the internet for a driver, I came across 2 solutions: the
> commercial OSS drivers support the ice1712 chipset, but costs more than
> I'm willing to pay for.
> the other one is the Alsa driver.
> now my question: what driver supports the ice1712 best ? the OSS driver
> or the alsa driver ?
> I'm now trying the alsa-0.9rc8x and I seem to be able to play a sound w/ 
> aplay. but the envy24control is a mystery to me (lack of docs).
> also I would like to know how to set up the soundcard so I can play 2 
> sounds simultaneously; the oss driver supports that.
> 

I got an EWX 24/96 ... dunno if I'm using the envy24control right, but
for what I'm doing it doesn't seem that difficult.

Regarding how to play more than one sound simultaneously: I guess some
.asoundrc-magic (didn't find this documented anywhere) is necessary for
this ..

What somebody told me once here, for specifically recording from or
playing to the digital in/out, was the following entry:
pcm.ice_spdif {
              type plug
              ttable.0.8 1
              ttable.1.9 1
              slave.pcm {
                        type hw
                        card 0
                        device 0
              }
}

using that in my .asoundrc I can play to spdif or record from it with a
device name like "alsa,ice_spdif" (in ecasound, that is). This uses
these two channels exclusively, i.e. while playing to spdif I can record
from analog line in at the same time.

now I haven't tried this but I guess if you'd want to play to the other
8 channels exclusively (which in the end all go to line-out) you'd have
to modify that thing above a little bit ..
pcm.channel2 {
             type plug
             ttable.0.2 1
             ttable.1.3 1
             slave.pcm {
                       type hw
                       card 0
                       device 0
             }
}            

< --- insert some time that passes --- >

OK, just tried this and it didn't work. While I can target all the
channels I see in envy24control individually with this kind of setup, I
still can't play to them at the same time, I get a "device or resource
busy" message. Darn. Probably somebody more involved with the
programming of the drivers can enlighten us?

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