Hey Ian, Aha....it took me 2 months (well on an off :) ) to figure out how to get my gentoo box talking to the two sound cards (an SBLIve! and an SB AUdioPCI) in my system via alsa. But I think it was all damn worth it. I plan to use the box as a dj mixing station and with my mixing coming around this weekend I think I'm gonna have the neighbours pissed at me for a while...anyway...this is kinda what you need to do:
1. Compile alsa with support for both sound cards...I am assumning both your cards are suported? Which cards d'u have in there. 2. Edit the /etc/modules.d/alsa file to include device references ..such as /dev/dsp2 and /dev/mixer2 etc to the new card...there is some sort a skeleton outline to follow for multi-cards in there...but some parts of it were not that clear...i'll send u mine when I get a chance...maybe tonight. 3. Run modules-update 4. Restart devfsd 5. Pray that the device nodes dsp2 and mixer2 are created ... i did and they weren't but u may be lucky ... as I did some other stuff that made this not so striuaghtforward. 6. If 5 failed then you need to create the new nodes manually (some alsa-dev posting discussed the fact the there is something wacky with the soundcore.o and devfs and something or other....If you get this far I'll send the manual dev node creating commands that you need. They are online also...somewhere on the alsa-project website...I don;t remember where though. Best of luck, Simon On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Ian Truelsen wrote: > I have two sound cards, but only one of them gets an entry in > /dev/sound. Should devfsd not create an entry for the other card as > well? I am using alsa for both cards and they are both working fine. > > Is there something that I need to do in, say devfsd.conf, to have an > entry in /dev/sound for the second card? > > -- > Ian Truelsen > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > AIM: ihtruelsen > Homepage: http://www.ihtruelsen.dyndns.org > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
