[PlanetCCRMA] Reordering Sound Cards

[Mark Knecht]

I forgot I actually do have one machine that sets up two devices:

# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore

##
## IMPORTANT:
## You need to customise this section for your specific sound card(s)
## and then run `update-modules' command.
## Read alsa-driver's INSTALL file in /usr/share/doc for more info.
##
##  ALSA portion
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
options snd-intel8x0 index=0

alias snd-card-1 snd-usb-audio
options snd-usb-audio index=1

##  OSS/Free portion
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1
##

# OSS/Free portion - card #1
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
##  OSS/Free portion - card #2
alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss

alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss
alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss

# Set this to the correct number of cards.
options snd cards_limit=2
mark@dragonfly ~ $

On 7/6/05, Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net> wrote:
> Can anyone advise on how best to rearrange the order of multiple sound
> cards in an FC4 system?
> 
> I am trying to setup a pretty snappy P4 box for audio work. It has an on
> board Intel 8X0 and I've plopped my HDSP Multiface's PCI interface card
> inside. The FC4 installation set the HDSP up as card 0, and the onboard
> Intel as card 1. Well, that's the opposite of what I want, but just
> switching the designations in /etc/modprobe.conf doesn't do the trick.
> 
> I can successfully:
> 
> aplay -D hw:0,0
> 
> to play to the Intel. But aplay all alone just gives me an error.
> 
> My reasoning for keeping the 8X0 in the systemis to have it grab all the audio by default, such as
> my software TTS speech interface on the GUI, etc. In particular I would
> not want my screen reader audio events intermixed with my
> compositions/performances.
> 
> Should I physically move my HDSP PCI interface to another slot and run
> Kudzu? What's the best way to get Fedora to reorder these devices?
> 
> Thanks in advance for all advice on this.
> 
> 
> 
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> 
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