I have a NI Komplete Audio 6, and I want to use its stereo channels separately, not all the outputs combined as 5.1.  It is recognized by Ubuntu, however I only get the choice of using it in 2.1, 4.1, 5.0 or 5.1. To get proper audio on the first stereo channel, I've had to select 2.1 and then disable lfe-mixing in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf so that the low frequencies do no get sent to the non-existing sub-woofer.  I would like at least to be able to use my sound card in 2.0, and at best to have it come up as 3 virtual 2.0 devices in Ubuntu. I have already tried to fiddle with pulseaudio profiles but with no success.  Here is my aplay -L output:   Any ideas?  EDIT: Using the asound.conf provided in  and adapting it to six channels did not work. Also, I am also asking about having my device be properly recognized as 2.0 capable.
I have a Xonar DX (CMI8788 driver) 7.1 surround sound card installed on my Ubuntu 11.10 system.   I want to use the outputs of the card as 4 separate stereo outputs and I am struggling with ALSA to get it to work.  This is my asound.conf:  #/etc/asound.conf pcm_slave.eightchannels {         pcm "hw:0,0"            # or "hw:1,0" for the second card         channels 8 } pcm.stereo1 {         type plug         slave.pcm {                 type dshare                 ipc_key 87882222                 slave eightchannels                 bindings [ 2 3 ]         } } pcm.stereo2 {         type plug         slave.pcm {                 type dshare                 ipc_key 87882222                 slave eightchannels                 bindings [ 4 5 ]         } } pcm.stereo3 {         type plug         slave.pcm {                 type dshare                 ipc_key 87882222                 slave eightchannels                 bindings [ 6 7 ]         } } pcm.stereo4 {         type plug         slave.pcm {                 type dshare                 ipc_key 87882222                 slave eightchannels                 bindings [ 0 1 ]         } }   This is my aplay -l output:  $ aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: DX [Xonar DX], device 0: Multichannel [Multichannel]   Subdevices: 1/1   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: DX [Xonar DX], device 1: Digital [Digital]   Subdevices: 1/1   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 1: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC662 rev1 Analog [ALC662 rev1 Analog]   Subdevices: 1/1   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 1: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC662 rev1 Digital [ALC662 rev1 Digital]   Subdevices: 1/1   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0   This is my aplay -L output:   The system seems to completely ignore my configuration. However, I am sure that the config is used, because when i insert a random string at the top, i get a parsing error.  Any help is greatly appreciated.
Using sObject.get() to fetch a field value from a related parent object I have a contact in a generic sObject in apex and while I'm able to easily get detail field values using   sObject.get('MyContactField__c')  I'm not able to get fields off the related parent object, and I'm sure the related field is in memory, based on the debug logs. This returns a runtime error:  sObject.get('Account.MyAccountField__c')  with the error     Invalid field Account.MyAccountField__c' for Contact   How do I get a field value off of a parent on a generic sObject? I know Wonder Woman has died in canon before, but in which issue did this happen? When using \textsc, LaTeX issues warning: Font shape `OT1/cmr/bx/sc' undefined Nowhere monotonic continuous function Does there exist a nowhere monotonic continuous function from some open subset of $\mathbb{R}$ to $\mathbb{R}$? Some nowhere differentiable function sort of object? 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