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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Switch between sound cards?
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:01:15
Message-Id: 5bdc1c8b0802241001if4d244bqcc8a91ddf8f30ee1@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Switch between sound cards? by Grant
1 On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > I have a USB sound card and an internal sound card in my laptop. Is
3 > there a way to switch between them while the system is booted? Is
4 > module loading/unloading via modprobe the best way to do it?
5 >
6 > - Grant
7 > --
8 > gentoo-user@l.g.o mailing list
9 >
10 >
11
12 Why switch between them when you can use them both at the same time as
13 hw:0 and hw:1?
14
15 - Mark
16
17 mark@lightning ~ $ cat /etc/modules.d/alsa
18 # Alsa 0.9.X kernel modules' configuration file.
19 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/media-sound/alsa-utils/files/alsa-modules.conf-rc,v
20 1.4 2004/11/16 01:31:22 eradicator Exp $
21
22 # ALSA portion
23 alias char-major-116 snd
24
25 # OSS/Free portion
26 alias char-major-14 soundcore
27
28 ## ALSA portion
29 alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
30 options snd-intel8x0 index=0
31 alias snd-card-1 snd-hdsp
32 options snd-hdsp index=1
33
34 ## OSS/Free portion
35 alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
36
37
38 # OSS/Free portion - card #1
39 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
40 alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
41 alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
42 alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
43 alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
44
45 alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss
46 alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss
47 alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss
48
49 # Set this to the correct number of cards.
50 options snd cards_limit=2
51 mark@lightning ~ $
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