On Thursday 03 June 2004 10:25 am, Frans Ketelaars wrote: > 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
I started poking around myself, and found some stuff. I posted the message because I was frustrated that I could not get to alsa-project.org. I guess I'll just have to experiment a bit with it when I get the new card. > 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, Thanks for this, it gives me some clues to work with. > 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? > Actually, I want the music to go to a usb DAC that has a headphone amp in it and be able to play the music on high quailty headphones, and have the system sounds continue to go to the speakers and not interrupt the music playback, but this is the basic scenario. > HTH, Yes, thank you for taking the time to post. -- /g
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