[CentOS] Multiple sound cards

Jeffrey B. Layton laytonjb at charter.net
Mon May 30 17:24:06 UTC 2005


Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:

> Jeffrey B. Layton wrote:
>
>> Afternoon,
>>
>>   I recently upgraded a machine to CentOS 4.0 and it
>> has two sound cards: built-in VIA, Cmedia PCI card.
>> The OS recognizes both and I can use the tool,
>> system-config-soundcard to test them. However, I
>> can't seem to get any sound out of the VIA card, but
>> the Cmedia plays the test sound just fine. The problem
>> is that I can't get any sound apps to use the Cmedia
>> card, particularly xmms. Any hints or helpful comments?
>
>
> I'd guess xmms (and other apps) are simply attempting to use the first 
> configured sound card.  If you can't specify different output device 
> in your applications, maybe you can try playing with 
> /etc/modprobe.conf to switch the order of the cards.  Editing alias 
> lines and swapping snd-card-0 and snd-card-1, and rebooting should do 
> the trick.
>
> It will not make VIA card work, but at least Cmedia will be the 
> primary sound card (and used by all apps by default).
>

Good idea! (Sorry my brain seems to be in park today).
BTW - this worked just fine.

Jeff



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