Re: [fluid-dev] multiple sound cards

[Garett Shulman]

Markus, Thanks a lot for you reply. I am still unsuccessfull and was 
wondering if you or anyone else had any suggestions as to how I might 
troubleshoot the problem. I have tried "fluidsynth -a hw:0" and get:
fluidsynth: error: Couldn't find the requested audio driver: hw:0 Failed 
to create the audio driver. I added an ID option for my sound card in 
modules.conf. This is reflected in /proc/asound. before I saw a link to 
card0 called Live. Now I see emu which is what I put in modules.conf. 
However, "fluidsynth -a emu" gets the same error. "fluidsynth -a alsa" 
works fine however. "fluidsynth -a /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p" also gets the 
error. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks again. -Garett

Hi,

use the alsa card name after the -a switch.
In most cases you can use hw:0 for the first sound card, hw:1 for the 
second and so on.
You could also use a card name that has been defined in .asoundrc.

Cheers

Markus


>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ext Garett Shulman [mailto:address@hidden
>> Sent: 14 July 2003 21:58
>> To: address@hidden
>> Subject: [fluid-dev] multiple sound cards
>>
>>
>> Hello everybody, I have two different sound cards in my
>> machine. I have
>> alsa drivers loaded for both. one is an emu10k1 (alsa card 0) and the
>> other is an ice1712 (alsa card 1). I am not sure how I can
>> specify which
>> one I want to use when I start fluidsynth. I try: fluidsynth -a
>> snd-ice1712 but fluisynth complains that it cannot find the audio
>> driver. I can do: fluidsynth -a alsa, but this plays through the
>> emu10k1. Does anybody have any suggestions? Also, is it possible to
>> attach fluidsynth directly to the alsa driver for a sound cards midi
>> device instead of using the alsa sequencer? Here is my lsmod. I would
>> like -a to use snd_ice1712 and -m to use snd-mpu401-uart. Is this
>> possible? Thanks for any suggestions or clarifications. -Garett
>>
>> Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: P
>> snd-seq-midi            4096   0  (autoclean) (unused)
>> snd-emu10k1-synth       4892   0  (autoclean) (unused)
>> snd-emux-synth         28092   0  (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1-synth]
>> snd-seq-midi-emul       5056   0  (autoclean) [snd-emux-synth]
>> snd-seq-virmidi         3336   0  (autoclean) [snd-emux-synth]
>> snd-seq-oss            29088   0  (unused)
>> snd-seq-midi-event      3080   0  [snd-seq-midi
>> snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-oss]
>> snd-seq                37104   2  [snd-seq-midi snd-emux-synth
>> snd-seq-midi-emul snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event]
>> snd-pcm-oss            39012   0  (unused)
>> snd-mixer-oss          13496   0  [snd-pcm-oss]
>> snd-ice1712            39368   0  (unused)
>> snd-ak4xxx-adda         3740   0  [snd-ice1712]
>> snd-cs8427              5064   0  [snd-ice1712]
>> snd-i2c                 2700   0  [snd-ice1712 snd-cs8427]
>> snd-mpu401-uart         3408   0  [snd-ice1712]
>> snd-emu10k1            71252   0  [snd-emu10k1-synth]
>> snd-pcm                60192   0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-ice1712
>> snd-emu10k1]
>> snd-timer              14596   0  [snd-seq snd-pcm]
>> snd-hwdep               5184   0  [snd-emu10k1]
>> snd-util-mem            1296   0  [snd-emux-synth snd-emu10k1]
>> snd-page-alloc          5004   0  [snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm]
>> snd-rawmidi            13504   0  [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-virmidi
>> snd-mpu401-uart snd-emu10k1]
>> snd-seq-device          4240   0  [snd-seq-midi snd-emu10k1-synth
>> snd-emux-synth snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi]
>> snd-ac97-codec         40008   0  [snd-ice1712 snd-emu10k1]
>> snd                    29764   0  [snd-seq-midi snd-emux-synth
>> snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss
>> snd-mixer-oss snd-ice1712 snd-ak4xxx-adda snd-cs8427 snd-i2c
>> snd-mpu401-uart snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-hwdep snd-util-mem
>> snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec]
>> nvidia               1539776  10  (autoclean)
>> iptable_filter          1740   1  (autoclean)
>> ip_tables              11896   1  [iptable_filter]
>> autofs4                10036   0  (unused)
>> af_packet              13608   0
>> agpgart                37792   3
>> ac97_codec             11080   0
>> 8139too                16264   1
>> mii                     2496   0  [8139too]
>> tuner                  10080   1  (autoclean)
>> tvaudio                12668   1  (autoclean)
>> msp3400                16684   1  (autoclean)
>> bttv                   68800   0  (unused)
>> videodev                6176   3  [bttv]
>> soundcore               3844  15  [snd bttv]
>> i2c-algo-bit            7560   1  [bttv]
>> i2c-core               13604   0  [tuner tvaudio msp3400 bttv
>> i2c-algo-bit]
>> emu10k1-gp              1480   0  (unused)
>> gameport                1676   0  [emu10k1-gp]
>> serial                 49604   0
>> usb-uhci               23148   0  (unused)
>>
>>
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