* Gregory Nowak <greg at romuald.net.eu.org> writes: > Hi all. Is there anyone here using multiple soundcards with alsa? Once I was given for try a sound card together with my own one. > I am mainly curious to know how easy it is to control each card > independently with applications like alsactl/amixer/arecord/aplay, > and mplayer, No hard at all. > as well as how easy it is to switch from using one card > to another as the default on the fly? If you mean system-wide default -- you would have to reload sound modules with appropriate "index=" options. $ modprobe emu10k1 index=1 For instance. > I do know that the applications > I mentioned support using multiple sound cards, however, seeing what > command-lines look like to for example play/record with > mplayer/arecord through the second soundcard would be helpful. Thanks I don't remember the CL mplayer opts, but here is params from ~/.mplayer/config for second sound card (index=1): mixer=hw:1 or: ao=alsa:device=hw=1.0 ~~ Roman out Winusers like winmodems -- With no memory and no brain onboard. http://www.livejournal.com/~dottedmag/158509.html
