[SOLVED-follow-up] Re: ALSA with Multiple Sound Cards

[Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net>]

Adam Porter wrote:

> 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...)

FOLLOW-UP:

After doing that, GNOME interface sounds were still playing through OSS, 
and the wrong sound card.  So I used Synaptic to install the 
libesd-alsa0 package, logged out of GNOME, logged back in, and now GNOME 
is playing through ALSA, and my sound card of choice.  :)

Up next: Setting up ALSA to play the same sound through both sound 
cards, so I can, for example, mute the speakers and listen through the 
headphones.