[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #624: need proper support for Terratec EWS88-MT (ice1712)

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#624: need proper support for Terratec EWS88-MT (ice1712)
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  Reporter:  aelschuring  |       Owner:  lennart          
      Type:  defect       |      Status:  new              
 Milestone:               |   Component:  module-alsa-*    
Resolution:               |    Keywords:  ews88 profile-set
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Comment(by aelschuring):

 I've posted a patch on alsa-devel today to at least get the patch for
 front:0 merged. I'm also experimenting with a solution that will allow PA
 and other applications to access front: and spdif: at the same time, which
 is currently not possible because any access to one of the channels will
 cause the entire device to be locked. That's a fundamental property of
 ALSA, and I think any solution I can come up with will be hackish.

 Is there a difference between the iec958: and spdif: devices? Because
 currently the card defines only the first of the two.

 We could probably ask for fourch: and sixch: definitions, but I don't
 think the ALSA guys will really like them. At least they do make more
 sense than surround* definitions, but there is just one minor issue: ALSA
 uses one configuration file for all ice1712 cards (no subsystem-id
 separation possible in ALSA), so I'm really hoping to keep that file as
 generic as possible: I'm currently leaning towards only three devices,
 which are front:, spdif: and an all-channel (8) definition.

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