[linux-audio-user] dual sound cards

[Lee Azzarello]

sorry, I'm retarded, I thought this was the ALSA forum. The config is
attached.

-l[e^2]
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On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Simon Mushi wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying out a small project whereby I wanna transform my gentoo linux
> box (2.4.20-r5) into a linux dj rig. So far I have catalogued the bpms of
> all my mp3s
> with bpmdj, have an external mixer, but where I have hit a snag is
> configguring my system to see my 2 sound cards. My "primary" unit is
> an SB LIve and it runs smoothly under alsa. My second unit was initially
> an Aureal Vortex unit but the alsa drivers weren;t as "easy" to get going
> as the ones for an old SB Ensoniq 1370 that I had so I threw it in
> instead. And duly recopiled alsa with supoprt for both.
>
> I made changes to the /etc/modules.d/alsa, in the hope of getting devfs to
> create new nodes for the device...such as a second dsp and mixer....but as
> usual devfs is being a b*()*$ ..... does anyone know how I can get around
> my problems....or can anyone who has succesfullys set-up more than one
> soundcard in the same box give me any suggestons.
>
> Cheers
>
> Simon
>
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# Alsa 0.9.X kernel modules' configuration file.
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/media-sound/alsa-driver/files/alsa-modules.conf-rc,v 1.1 2002/12/21 06:31:52 agenkin Exp $

# 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-ice1712
alias snd-card-1 snd-via82xx 
## alias snd-card-1 snd-ens1371
##  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-1-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-1-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss
## 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
options snd-via82xx dxs_support=2