[LAU] Installed Fedora17, now trying to play sound

[Ivan K]

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando at ccrma.Stanford.EDU> writes:
> 
> On 07/18/2012 09:09 AM, Ivan K wrote:
> >
> > The one thing that still continues to confuse me, is
> > that even though I just have three audio devices in my
> > computer:
> >
> >     Mother Board NVidia
> >     M-Audio Audiophile 24/96
> >     WebCam with microphone
> >
> > the number of "sound cards" that the panel in Fedora's sound
> > card configure GUI refers to is large:
> >
[...]
> >  **>  M Audio Audiophile 24.96 (Alsa mixer)
> >    >  Playback: ICE1712 [Envy24] PCI Multi-Chan I/O Cont. Analog Stereo (PulseAudio Mixer)
> >    >  Capture: Monitor of ICE1712 [Envy24] PCI Multi-Chan I/O Cont. Analog Stereo (PulseAudio Mixer)
> >    >  Capture: ICE1712 [Envy24] PCI Multi-Chan I/O Cont. Analog Stereo (PulseAudio Mixer)
> >
> > I am guessing that the last four devices all refer to the M-Audio
> > card.  I chose -- "M Audio Audiophile 24.96" -- and things are working
> > now.  What exactly are the last three "sound cards" in the list
> > referring to and under what circumstances would one choose
> 
> Different profiles that are recognized by Pulse Audio (for the same card).


Thank you again for the explanation!