26 Aug
2003
26 Aug
'03
9:10 a.m.
Peter Hutnick wrote:
I have a "VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97
Audio Controller (rev 80)."
[...]
I also have a "Burr-Brown Japan PCM2702"
[...]
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 USB drivers get loaded before the sound drivers. You'd have to
modify your init scripts. Or try something like
"pre-install audio viaxxxx".
The recommended solution is, of course, to use ALSA:
alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
alias snd-card-1 snd-usb-audio
options snd-via82xx index=0
options snd-usb-audio index=1
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. [...]
Just use Alsa.
PS: I suspect someone will suggest "Just use
Alsa." but there doesn't seem
to be an Alsa driver for the USB device.
If it works with audio, it will work with snd-usb-audio, too.
(ALSA's soundcard matrix hasn't been maintained lately.)
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.
This depends of your definition of "good". I often work in the
console, without X, so I have a script that pipes the output of
cdda2wav into aplay. :-)
HTH
Clemens