Re: [Alsa-user] More than 8 USB C-Media cards with Alsa?

[Clemens L. <cl...@la...>]

Jeff wrote:
> I want to run 12 USB C-Media Electronics audio adapters. lsusb
> recognizes all 12 but there are only 8 in /proc/asound/cards. 
> 
> Looking around, it appears that there is a hard limit of 8 built into
> the drivers. Is this true?

It was true before ALSA 1.0.11.  (1.0.11 is not yet released, you have
to use a developer version, currently 1.0.11rc3.)

> Is there a way to use ALSA with these adapters and play all 12? 

When configuring the alsa-driver package, use the
--enable-dynamic-minors parameter.  This requires a 2.6.x kernel and
udev.


HTH
Clemens