[linux-audio-user] Two sound cards - module loading and signal routing

[Kevin Cosgrove]

On 6 December 2004 at 21:06, Jan Depner <eviltwin69 at cableone.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 18:42, Kevin Cosgrove wrote:
> > Two questions...
> > 
> > First, I've got two sound cards in my system:
> > 
> >     ICH4 845G/GL Chipset AC'97 Audio Controller
> > 	0 [I82801DBICH4   ]: ICH - Intel 82801DB-ICH4
> >                      Intel 82801DB-ICH4 at 0xffaff800, irq 17
> > 	Module: snd-intel8x0
> > 
> >     Sound Blaster AudioPCI64V/AudioPCI128
> > 	1 [AudioPCI       ]: ENS1371 - Ensoniq AudioPCI
> >                      Ensoniq AudioPCI ENS1371 at 0xdc00, irq 18
> > 	Module: snd-ens1371
> > 
> > The first "sound card", number 0, is on the motherboard.  I can't
> > get it to load as card number 1.  /etc/modules.conf makes no
> > difference in this regard.  "snd-card-0" and "sound-slot-0" seem
> > to be ignored.  I've tried lots of variants in modules.conf to get 
> > this to work, and tried various orders.  Here's a simple case:
> > 
> > alias snd-card-1 snd-intel8x0
> > alias snd-card-0 snd-ens1371
> > 
> > Is there a way to get this to work?
> > 
> > 
> > My second question might be related to the first.  If I disable
> > the on-board sound card, then all but one sound related thing
> > works for me.  Audio in/out works, MIDI in/out works, speakers
> > work.  Playing a CD does not produce sound no matter what the
> > application (cdp, Kscd, xmcd).  If I enable the on-board sound,
> > then I can play CDs fine, but the output comes out of the
> > on-board sound card.  I'd like to reroute the CD sound to come
> > out of the SoundBlaster PCI sound card.  How can I do this?
> > 
> > 
>    There should be a cable that runs from your CD player (audio out) to
> some spot on your mobo for audio.  Disconnect it from your mobo and
> connect it to your sound card.  It's usually pretty obvious where to
> connect it.

Bingo!  (BIG DUH, on my part :-/)  Thanks Jan!

I've got all I want now from my SoundBlaster card.  It does bother me 
some that I couldn't get the cards to load correctly, but I suppose 
that's just the way it is.

Thanks again....
 
--
Kevin