Re: [linux-audio-user] Two soundcards with JACK

From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@email-addr-hidden-job.com>
Date: Wed Aug 02 2006 - 01:35:03 EEST

On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 00:17 +0200, Johan Mattsson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to use JACK with two soundcards simultaneously, there is no need
> to sync them so I thought it might be possible. I copied the example
> multi .asoundrc from the ALSA documentation and started JACK. It seems
> to work; all ports show up but when I connect anything JACK exits
> immediately with some thing like: "Driver NT could not run drive cycle
> jack main caught signal 12".
>
> Since I do not have internet connection i my studio it is a little
> complicated to provide more info, but there are two soundcards one
> Vortex something that uses au8820 and one Cirrus something card.
>
> Any idea what causes this?

This cannot work. The .asoundrc you used was probably for a
configuration with two identical cards.

You should run one jackd for each card and use jack_diplomat to connect
them.

Lee
Received on Wed Aug 2 04:15:02 2006

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