Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] ALSA sink enumeration and multiple devices/subdevices

2010-08-24 Thread Stephen Warren
pl bossart wrote: > > In practice, NVIDIA GPUs only support sending video signals over at most > > two of these connectors at once, and hence the HD audio controller only > > allows two audio streams to be configured at once. The exact set used can > > be dynamically reconfigured by changing xorg.c

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] ALSA sink enumeration and multiple devices/subdevices

2010-08-24 Thread pl bossart
> In practice, NVIDIA GPUs only support sending video signals over at most > two of these connectors at once, and hence the HD audio controller only > allows two audio streams to be configured at once. The exact set used can > be dynamically reconfigured by changing xorg.conf or using NVIDIA's tool

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] ALSA sink enumeration and multiple devices/subdevices

2010-08-24 Thread Stephen Warren
pl bossart wrote: > > What I'm talking about is that pulseaudio is incapable of ever sending > > audio to anything other than the default device/subdevice within a card, > > irrespective of whether a cable is plugged in and signal being transmitted. > > ok, I am not sure I understand why there are

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] ALSA sink enumeration and multiple devices/subdevices

2010-08-23 Thread pl bossart
> What I'm talking about is that pulseaudio is incapable of ever sending > audio to anything other than the default device/subdevice within a card, > irrespective of whether a cable is plugged in and signal being transmitted. ok, I am not sure I understand why there are several devices in the firs

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] ALSA sink enumeration and multiple devices/subdevices

2010-08-23 Thread Stephen Warren
pl bossart wrote: > > If I hack /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/profile-sets/default.conf to > > change hdmi-stereo's device-strings value to e.g. "hdmi:%f,0", "hdmi:%f,1", > > etc., then I can cause pulseaudio to open whichever subdevice I wish. This > > proves to me that this is simply an enumer

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] ALSA sink enumeration and multiple devices/subdevices

2010-08-23 Thread pl bossart
> If I hack /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/profile-sets/default.conf to > change hdmi-stereo's device-strings value to e.g. "hdmi:%f,0", "hdmi:%f,1", > etc., then I can cause pulseaudio to open whichever subdevice I wish. This > proves to me that this is simply an enumeration issue and nothing mo

[pulseaudio-discuss] ALSA sink enumeration and multiple devices/subdevices

2010-08-23 Thread Stephen Warren
Recent NVIDIA GPUs include an audio controller that hosts a number of different ALSA PCM objects. For example, consider the following output from "aplay -L": hdmi:CARD=NVidia_1,DEV=0 HDA NVidia, NVIDIA HDMI HDMI Audio Output hdmi:CARD=NVidia_1,DEV=1 HDA NVidia, NVIDIA HDMI HDMI Aud