[linux-audio-user] Re: Multiple Cards

[Alastair Couper]

On Fri, 03 Sep 2004 12:01:04 -0400, Matt Barber  
<brbrofsvl at aol.com> wrote:

> Just a conceptual alsa question:
>
>
> I've been reading about setting up multiple soundcards in
> modules.conf/modprobe.conf, but most of the guides I've seen talk about
> setting up two different cards -- what if you wanted to set up two
> identical cards (like two delta 1010s, or two hdsp/multiface), will the
> names of the cards (like snd-hdsp) be exactly the same, and will it thus
> be difficult to set something like this up:
>
> alias snd-card-0 snd-hdsp
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-hdsp
>
> alias snd-card-1 snd-hdsp
> alias sound-slot-1 snd-hdsp
>
> or will it number them somehow?

That will work fine. The snd-hdsp label is just the name of the module  
that is loaded, and will of course be the same for each card. In  
applications, you would refer to the two cards as hw0 and hw1.