-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 12:24:24 -0400 "Chuckk Hubbard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 8/5/06, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > CJ van den Berg wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 05:20:38PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > >> For the alsa behaved apps (like libao) you set alsa_card=1 or 0 > > >> and ao_example.c plays on either one soundcard or the other. > > > > > > Just a small tip. On machines with multiple sound devices the > > > alsa card numbers may not be predictable because the device > > > number depends on which card was detected first. On my machine it > > > seems to be pretty random. Alsa allows you to refer to sound > > > devices by *name* though too, which works much more predictably. > > > So for example in libao you would use the driver option > > > "dev=hw:NAME" instead of "dev=hw:NUMBER". The names of the > > > devices on your machine are listed (in square brackets) > > > in /proc/asound/cards. > > > > > > > I have this in /etc/modprobe.d/sound: > > > > alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx > > options snd-via82xx index=0 > > alias snd-card-1 snd_ca0106 > > options snd_ca0106 index=1 > > > > > > and now the cards always seem to come up in that order. > > But thanks for the tip! > > Is there any sort of standard for this? I don't have > /etc/modprobe.d/sound, and I can't find anywhere what files I need to > edit to get this done. Not to state the obvious here, but have you tried alsaconf? My /etc/modprobe.d/sound was created by running that utility. HTH, Jacob -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE2hOkkpJ43hY3cTURAkGYAJ998BKo+AudHoJmw96Eyv4QGnZxFQCfXFTX wazo2QAQ1g3LQTqiS+FYz1c= =4mEM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
