ALSA Problem: 2 soundcards, wrong order

PrivatePanic · 09-02-2003, 11:30 AM

Hi everybody!

I've got a problem with ALSA, I searched the forums here and the different ALSA-FAQ's and HowTo's but I didn't find a solution yet

Here's my situation:

I've got two soundcards, a Soundblaster Live! Platinum and an ESS Solo1 compatible card.

Both cards seem to work, my output of cat /proc/asound/cards is:

Code:

0 [Solo1          ]: ES1938 - ESS ES1938 (Solo-1)
                     ESS ES1938 (Solo-1) rev 0, irq 3
1 [Live           ]: EMU10K1 - Sound Blaster Live!
                     Sound Blaster Live! (rev.7) at 0xd400, irq 9

But this output also contains my problem: the Solo1 is card 0 and the SB Live is card 1. I want it the other way round.

My modules.conf:

Code:

# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore

options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=3 snd_device_mode=0660 snd_device_gid=29 snd_device_uid=0

# Creative SoundBlaster Live! Platinum
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

# ESS Solo1
alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1
alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-1-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss

# ALSA portion
alias snd-card-0 snd-card-emu10k1
options snd-card-0 snd_enable

alias snd-card-1 snd-esssolo1


alias char-major-195 nvidia

I thoughed to set the order of the cards it'd suffice to edit the aliases (As you can see I made the Soundblaster Live snd-card-0 and the solo1 snd-card-1, but this doesn't work as I mentioned)

How can I set the SB Live to be card 0?

Thanks in advance,

PrivatePanic

blakerwry · 09-02-2003, 03:05 PM

i think changing the alias will work.. but remember to keep the correct slot (sound-slot-0)

if that doesn't work you can try changing the order the modules load in or changing the order of the cards on the PCI bus.

PrivatePanic · 09-02-2003, 05:48 PM

Quote:

i think changing the alias will work..

No, I already changed the aliases! Before, it was

Code:

# ALSA portion
alias snd-card-0 snd-esssolo1

alias snd-card-1 snd-card-emu10k1
options snd-card-1 snd_enable

and it didn't work, and I swapped the aliases and it doesn't work, too.

Quote:

you can try changing the order the modules load in or changing the order of the cards on the PCI bus.

Excuse my ignorance, but how can I do these things?

Thanks for your reply, if you'd help me further I'd be very grateful

PrivatePanic

PrivatePanic · 09-03-2003, 10:45 AM

Sorry for bumping... but I just can't imagine I'm the first one with this kind of problem

Anyone can help me?

How can I change the order how the two modules are loaded during startup? They're ALSA drivers, as I mentioned, and both seem to load correctly.

I get sound without problems out of the Solo 1 card, alsamixer works and stuff. I just want the other card to be the 1st card used, and be the card used for the normal KDE sound output.

I really hope someone can help me

I also can post my bootlog, not just now as I'm at work atm

Later,

PrivatePanic

blakerwry · 09-04-2003, 02:15 PM

For example, if your modules.conf were this:

Code:

# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore

options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=3 snd_device_mode=0660 snd_device_gid=29 snd_device_uid=0

# Creative SoundBlaster Live! Platinum
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

# ESS Solo1
alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1
alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-1-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss

# ALSA portion
alias snd-card-0 snd-card-emu10k1
options snd-card-0 snd_enable

alias snd-card-1 snd-esssolo1


alias char-major-195 nvidia

Then the Live would be in PCI slot 0 (probably the top PCI slot on the mobo) and would load 1st.

The ensoniq would be in slot 1 (2nd PCI slot from the top.. if it's onboard then it is probably shared w/ the second PCI slot) and would load second.

If you change the order of things in the modules file so that the ensoniq apears 1st then it's drivers will load 1st and vise-versa.

example:

Code:

# ESS Solo1
alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-1-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss

# Creative SoundBlaster Live! Platinum
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-1
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss


# ALSA portion
alias snd-card-0 snd-esssolo1

alias snd-card-1 snd-card-emu10k1
options snd-card-0 snd_enable