[PlanetCCRMA] Reordering Sound Cards

[Janina Sajka]

Just sent you a thank you note, because your email did help get my card
reordering figured out.

But, in my insufficient attention to detail, I responded to a different
message from you. Sorry about that! Apologies mostly to the other list,
I guess.


Mark Knecht writes:
> 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.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Chair, Accessibility Workgroup          Free Standards Group (FSG)
> > janina@freestandards.org                http://a11y.org
> > 
> > Janina Sajka                            Phone: +1.202.494.7040
> > Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC      http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com
> > 
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Janina Sajka				Phone: +1.202.494.7040
Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC	http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com
Bringing the Owasys 22C screenless cell phone to the U.S. and Canada. Go to http://www.ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more.

Chair, Accessibility Workgroup		Free Standards Group (FSG)
janina@freestandards.org		http://a11y.org