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

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? Thanks.... FWIW, my loaded sound related modules are these: snd-seq-midi 6176 0 snd-seq-oss 27648 0 snd-seq-midi-event 4480 2 snd-seq-midi,snd-seq-oss snd-seq 40592 5 snd-seq-midi,snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event snd-ens1371 17508 0 snd-pcm-oss 45992 0 snd-mixer-oss 16384 1 snd-pcm-oss snd-intel8x0 26572 0 snd-ac97-codec 57936 2 snd-ens1371,snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm 68360 3 snd-ens1371,snd-pcm-oss,snd-intel8x0 snd-timer 19204 2 snd-seq,snd-pcm snd-page-alloc 6408 2 snd-intel8x0,snd-pcm gameport 2176 2 snd-ens1371,snd-intel8x0 snd-mpu401-uart 5504 1 snd-intel8x0 snd-rawmidi 17700 3 snd-seq-midi,snd-ens1371,snd-mpu401-uart snd-seq-device 5640 4 snd-seq-midi,snd-seq-oss,snd-seq,snd-rawmidi snd 38244 12 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq,snd-ens1371,snd-pcm-oss,\ snd-mixer-oss,snd-intel8x0,snd-ac97-codec,\ snd-pcm,snd-timer,snd-mpu401-uart,snd-rawmidi,\ snd-seq-device soundcore 6112 2 snd,bttv -- Kevin