[linux-audio-user] Dual Soundcard Woes

Gang, I'm not sure this is the best place to ask this, but here goes . . . I have a "VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 80)." according to /proc/pci using the via82cxxx_audio module that comes stock with Red Hat 9. (The 2.4.20-8 version due to some buggyness in the 2.4.20-20.9 versions V4L drivers.) I also have a "Burr-Brown Japan PCM2702" (according to /proc/bus/usb/devices) sound device built into my home stereo receiver. It seems to use a driver simply called "audio" that is part of the USB driver set. I want to use the VT82cxxx for everything except a fixed set of multimedia apps (xawtv/motv, mplayer, xine, xmms). My first problem is that the USB device seems to be /dev/dsp and the sound card (actually on board audio) is /dev/dsp1. I'd like this to be the other way around. There is no entry in /etc/modules.conf for the USB device . . . my first instinct was to just switch them around there. The other thing is that control over which device gets used seem to be flakey. For instance the motv -C switch seems to do nothing. I always get the output from the soundcard. With mplayer using -ao oss:/dev/dsp[1] seems to give me control over which device is used about 90% of the time. The other 10% it just seems to "do what it wants to." I'm about as sure as I can be that this isn't just fat-finger syndrome. Thanks in advance for any and all advice. -Peter PS: I suspect someone will suggest "Just use Alsa." but there doesn't seem to be an Alsa driver for the USB device. -P PPS: Anyone know of any good "CD Player" app that supports CDDA? I'd like to be able to use my CDROM->USB->Home Stereo.