Re: [opensuse] Swith between souncards ?

On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 13:29 +0100, michael norman wrote:
Hi

I have a box, used mainly for multimedia, which has two sound cards : the on
board chip and an external Soundbaster USB. I can configure both have have
not found an easy way of either swithing between the two or assigning
individual apps to automatically use a particular card.. The box is openSUSE
10.2 with the latest KDE from SUSE. As I pretty much always use KDE a KDE
configuration would be the easiest but if I have to I'll have a look in ALSA
configuration.

Any clues as to where to start gratefully received.

Mike
Have you considered an external patch bay? I use the onboard chip plus
two PCI sound cards in mine. Apps like Cinelerra or Audacity have
choices for input and output dsp devices (hw0,0 hw1,0 etc). I use FVWM
as a desktop, and with QAmix, there is a tab for each sound card.

In the patch bay, I have the first device "normalled" into the second's
line-in, and it drives a monitor speaker system. The Aux and CD input
jacks are also routed by the patch bay, so I have tons of "old-school"
flexibility.

Check with your local TV stations...they could have stacks of patch bays
they have been replacing recently as they upgrade to digital.

Tom in NM


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