Setting the audio-out to a different sound card.

indienick · 07-06-2007, 01:00 PM

On my system, I have two sound cards:
- NVidia nForce2 (on-board)
- Creative SBLive! (emu10k1)

With KDE, I was able to switch between the two cards, but due to size restrictions on my hard drive, I switched to GNOME. However, I am having a really hard time figuring out how to switch the sound output to the Creative SBLive!. The NVidia sucks, and not to mention, I paid for 5.1 surround sound, and I want to use it.

GNOME keeps defaulting to the NVidia.

I know the driver for the Creative SBLive! is emu10k1 - as when I was using Fedora Core 6, I could select which card to set as primary during OS installation. Alas, I am using Debian now.

In GNOME, how do I change which sound card the DE uses?

Quakeboy02 · 07-06-2007, 02:26 PM

Applications->Sound & Video->Volume Control->File->Change Device->choose one

indienick · 07-08-2007, 11:11 AM

Thanks for the reply, Quakeboy02, but what I find weird is that the only two devices that are listed, are the NVidia nForce2 (Alsa mixer) and a Realtek ALC650F (OSS mixer). The only thing that is a Realtek on my system, is my Ethernet card. :S

I just noticed as I was booting up today, that the probe for EMU10K1_Audigy fails with a -12 code. I Googled this, and it turns out that this means there's an IO conflict. And methinks it's an IO conflict with my Ethernet card.

I'm going to try hacking out a way to fix this, but do you have any other suggestions as to how to fix this, in the meantime?

EDIT:
Here's the output of "lsmod | grep -i emu10k1" (if it's of any help):

Code:

snd_emu10k1_synth 6656 0 snd_emux_synth 29952 1 snd_emu10k1_synth snd_emu10k1 100544 1 snd_emu10k1_synth snd_util_mem 4736 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1 snd_rawmidi 22048 4 snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi,snd_emu10k1 snd_seq_device 7820 8 snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_emu10k1,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi snd_ac97_codec 82848 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_intel8x0 emu10k1_gp 3968 0 gameport 13832 3 analog,emu10k1_gp snd_hwdep 8836 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1 snd_pcm 65928 5 snd_emu10k1,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 19972 4 snd_emu10k1,snd_seq,snd_pcm snd 45412 20 snd_mpu401,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_intel8x0,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer snd_page_alloc 9736 3 snd_emu10k1,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm

There was nothing returned when I grep'd for realtek or alc650f.