Temporarily enablingdisabling a sound card in SuSE 9.3 211

On 24 Jan 2006 21:31:30 -0800, AN O'Nymous staggered into the Black Sun and said:

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You only asked for one in that command: samantha:~$ lsdev-dsp*dev-dsp dev-dsp1

...shows that 2 sound devices are available. dev-soundhas all the sound devices available on udev systems, while thedev-dsp* devices are symlinks to the real devices. If you're not using udev, get busy with mknod if the device nodes don't exist:

crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 28 Jan 22 09:28 adsp1 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 20 Jan 22 09:28 audio1 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 19 Jan 22 09:28 dsp1 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 16 Jan 22 09:28 mixer1 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 8 Jan 22 09:26 sequencer2

...that's "mknod -m 660dev-dsp1 c 14 19" , similar for all those other devices. When those nodes exist, and the right modules are loaded, you can "play -ddev-dsp1 something.wav" and have the output come out your second sound card.

Nope. You *probably* need to set up your programs to send output to the sound card you want. This is pretty easy in xmms, maybe not so easy in gmplayer. As I said before, there doesn't seem to be an easy way to set it up so there's one ALSA device that copies all sounds sent to it to all real ALSA devices. There may be a way to do that with a .asoundrc file, but the stuff I found on the ALSA Wiki was more concerned with multichannel recording than about playing sounds to multiple devices.

snip all common ALSA modules

Right,dev-dsp anddev-dsp1 should both exist as long as you have an emu10k1 and intel8x0 sound card in this machine. The emu10k1 is a given since you said it was an Audigy. The other one's probably an intel of some type, but the new module-loading things in 2.6 mean you don't always get "no such device" errors from modprobe when you load a module for a device that doesn't exist. Ah well... try ls'ing everydev-dsp device first, they might actually be there. Then see if you can select different output devices in something like xmms. HTH,

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