>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? I haven't tried it at all, I'm just >wondering for future applications how this would work. You can use 'options' and 'id=' your modeprobe.conf (2.6) or modules.conf (2.4) and do something like (from my own config file): options snd-usb-audio index=1 id=MayaEX7 vid=0x0c45 pid=0x17fd then /proc/asound/cards has: .. 1 [MayaEX7 ]: USB-Audio - USB Audio USB Audio at usb-0000:00:1d.0-1, full speed .. Not sure how you access the id with alsa apps, I use portaudio and it uses the id to select a soundcard.