[SOLVED]Re: ALSA with Multiple Sound Cards
Adam Porter wrote:
I've set up a mix of testing and unstable on my desktop PC finally. I
have two SoundBlaster Live! Value cards. They both work in Windows
2000, and with several clicks I can change the default card for output
so I can easily switch between headphone and speaker output.
I have kernel 2.6.10 set up with ALSA. I can play sound, but only
through one card, which isn't the one I want as the default. The info
utilities I've looked at show that both cards are detected, one as card
0 and one as card 1.
I spent quite some time yesterday looking for information on how to set
the default card in ALSA. I found a way that is supposed to do it,
setting some things in /etc/asound.conf and/or ~/.asoundrc (I think
that's the second one).
Well, a little more time spent on Google and such, and it works now. :)
Thanks for your responses, everyone.
Here's what I did:
1. Set up ~/.asoundrc according to
<http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/asoundrc.php?module=emu10k1
>. Changed "card" from 0 to 1.
2. (Since I was using Rhythmbox to play MP3 streams...) Used Synaptic
to remove gstreamer's OSS package, and installed the gstreamer ALSA package.
3. Used GConf to change "audiosrc" and "audiosink" in
/system/gstreamer/0.8/default/audiosrc from "osssrc" and "osssink" to
"alsasrc" and "alsasink".
4. Clicked the play button in Rhythmbox.
5. Done. :) No reboot or anything, didn't even have to restart the
program. (Compared with Windows, where you'd have to reboot at least
once, probably...)
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