Subject: [linux-audio-user] Dual Soundcard Woes
From: Peter Hutnick (peter-lists_AT_hutnick.com)
Date: Sun Aug 24 2003 - 21:42:09 EEST
Gang,
I'm not sure this is the best place to ask this, but here goes . . .
I have a "VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 80)."
according to /proc/pci using the via82cxxx_audio module that comes stock
with Red Hat 9. (The 2.4.20-8 version due to some buggyness in the
2.4.20-20.9 versions V4L drivers.)
I also have a "Burr-Brown Japan PCM2702" (according to
/proc/bus/usb/devices) sound device built into my home stereo receiver.
It seems to use a driver simply called "audio" that is part of the USB
driver set.
I want to use the VT82cxxx for everything except a fixed set of multimedia
apps (xawtv/motv, mplayer, xine, xmms).
My first problem is that the USB device seems to be /dev/dsp and the sound
card (actually on board audio) is /dev/dsp1. I'd like this to be the
other way around. There is no entry in /etc/modules.conf for the USB
device . . . my first instinct was to just switch them around there.
The other thing is that control over which device gets used seem to be
flakey. For instance the motv -C switch seems to do nothing. I always
get the output from the soundcard. With mplayer using -ao oss:/dev/dsp[1]
seems to give me control over which device is used about 90% of the time.
The other 10% it just seems to "do what it wants to." I'm about as sure
as I can be that this isn't just fat-finger syndrome.
Thanks in advance for any and all advice.
-Peter
PS: I suspect someone will suggest "Just use Alsa." but there doesn't seem
to be an Alsa driver for the USB device.
-P
PPS: Anyone know of any good "CD Player" app that supports CDDA? I'd like
to be able to use my CDROM->USB->Home Stereo.
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