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Old 02-21-2004, 09:37 AM   #1
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Question Defining ALSA devices for KDE


Hey guys!

How can I tell KDE 3.2 (or arts, rather) to use the ALSA device hw:0,1 instead of the default one (hw:0,0)?

In the KDE control center, under sounds & Multimedia > Sound System > Hardware tab, I've tried to add 'hw:0,1' to the "Override device location" text box, but that doesnt seem to work (it doesnt' seem to 'understand' that syntax).

I've also tried telling it to use the device file thats supposed to correspond to hw:0,1 (/dev/pcmC0D1p), but I think you can't use it directly in ALSA like with OSS. (it also produces an error).

Thanks!!
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PS. I don't want to tell arts to use ALSA's OSS emulation, as that, for some reason makes arts use 100% CPU, and then eventualy crash with the dreaded 'CPU overload' error.
 
Old 02-22-2004, 05:00 AM   #2
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I think arts relies on /dev/dsp...that's the error it was giving me when I switched to alsa.

I ran the snddevices or whatever script that comes includes with alsa. That will symlink the correct devices files for you.
 
Old 02-22-2004, 08:37 PM   #3
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Hey, thanks for the answer.

AFAIK /dev/dsp is what OSS uses (or ALSA with OSS emulation).

However, I'd like to use 'real' alsa with KDE.

When using ALSA, without OSS emulation, you don't use device names (like /dev/dsp), the programs access the sound devices through names like:

hw:0,0 (same as /dev/dsp)
hw:0,1 (same as /dev/dsp1, if you have 2 sound outputs on one card, like es1371 has)
hw:1,0 (for the second sound card)

It works fine when I just select 'Advanced Linux Sound Architecture' in the control center, but it defaults to hw:0,0.

I'd like it to use hw:0,1.

Anyone know how?

Thanks!

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Old 02-24-2004, 09:14 PM   #4
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*bump*, anyone know?
 
Old 02-25-2004, 03:06 AM   #5
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http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc...module=emu10k1

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Alsa-sound.html

these helped me. Good luck!
 
  


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