On Wednesday 02 June 2004 23:22, Greg Meyer wrote: > Is it possible? > > I'd like to send all system sounds to the onboard codec, and then my > music signal to a higher quality add-on board. Is there anybody out > there doing it? What are the pitfalls?
I have no experience with it but ALSA supports up to 8 cards. http://alsa-project.org/ seems to be down atm but in the kernel-doc rpm I found /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.3/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt which near the end gives an example of how to set up two cards. I think the card you choose as the first card will have /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p as the (first) playback device and the second card will have /dev/snd/pcmC1D0p as the (first) playback device. KDE's arts soundserver let's you choose a custom playback device. If you let arts use the 'second' card (the onboard sound) your music applications could then just use their ALSA plugin and play on the higher quality add-on board. Just to be sure, you want to play system sounds to cheap speakers connected to the onboard soundcard and send music to higher quality speakers using the add-on board, right? HTH, -Frans
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