[ale] Default Soundcard in SuSE 9.1 Pro

[tfreeman at intel.digichem.net]

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Ryan Williams wrote:

> > I've had similar problems, and it had to do with some of the other
> > volume settings in the configuration.  Have you tried turning up all 
> > the
> > settings in the volume screen?
> 
> Yeah, it wasn't that. I fixed it. The envy24control app wouldn't run 
> because it was only seeing the NVidia soundcard on id 0. It was kinda 
> dumb, but I had to delete the NVidia driver so that the Audiophile 
> would be id 0 (fine since I'm not using it anyway). After that, I could 
> get into the mixer and make it work. MP3Blaster is playing fine out of 
> it now at least. Still seems like there should be a way to toggle 
> between various installed cards though. *shrug*

I think there is a way to drive more than one sound card with ALSA ( and 
the 2.6 kernel), but I don't think it is either obvious or well 
documented. At least I haven't found anything at my level.

I ran into something similar with an experimental Fedora Core 2 install, 
which I "fixed" by disabling the onboard sound card via the bios. While 
mumbling around, I saw something in a file under the Documentation subdir 
of the kernel sources which indicated ALSA will support several sound 
cards at the same time, but there is an entry into /etc/modules.conf or 
/etc/modprobe.conf (forgetful here, sorry) to allow more than one card.

(aside) If anybody happens to run into a modestly idiot level set of 
instructions as to configuring ALSA to run multiple cards, I would 
appreciate it if you post a url or other pointer here. Thanks.

> 
> BTW, MP3Blaster is killer! Thanks to Preston for the heads-up on that!
> 
> Ryan
> 
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