Re: two sound cards?

From: Eric Meyers (spammerbegone_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 10/20/03


Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 22:43:01 GMT

Jonathan Amir wrote:

> I have a RH 9 box with a Sound Blaster Live! sound card that doesn't
> work (I tried to configure it with alsa, but so far alsamixer fails).
> Looking at the var/log/messages file, I think that the kernel is
> looking for a second sound card but can't find it. I don't know why
> it is doing it .. I definitely only have one sound card in the
> computer (and there is no onboard card either).

I'm not using alsa, but I do have emu10k1 working on my Redhat 9 box with a
Soundblaster Live. Here's my /etc/modules.conf. Ignore the sound-slot-1
stuff, it's for my usb mic. Watch for line wrap. Maybe this will get you
going.

Eric

alias eth0 tulip

alias char-major-195 nvidia
alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1
post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null
2>&1 || :
pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null
2>&1 || :
alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
alias usb-controller1 usb-uhci
alias sound-slot-1 audio
post-install sound-slot-1 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null
2>&1 || :
pre-remove sound-slot-1 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null
2>&1 || :



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