Re: ALSA with Multiple Sound Cards
I also have two soundcards, one onboard and one SB Live! and I can use
both at the same time with different applications. Most applications
have options for setting the output device (xmms, xine, skype, mplayer
etc.), just look at the audio options of these applications.
On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 18:58:14 -0600, Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net> 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).
>
> However, neither of these files seem to exist in Debian.
>
> Is there a way to do it in Debian? Has anyone else done it before? I'm
> considering installing Ubuntu (for this and other reasons, like
> bootsplash and easier automounting), but I'd like to get it working in
> Debian.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
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