[Alsa-user] Multiple sound cards...

[Nyitrai T. <li...@de...>]

Hello,

This might be a beginner's question, but I do not know where to start....
I am trying to move to ALSA from OSS, as I have just installed
the 2.6.7-rc2 Linux kernel.

My box has 3 sound cards in it (actually it is one card, one on-board chip
and a TV-tuner card).

/proc/asound/cards looks like this:
0 [Bt878          ]: Bt87x - Brooktree Bt878
                     Brooktree Bt878 at 0xdedff000, irq 17
1 [Live           ]: EMU10K1 - Sound Blaster Live!
                     Sound Blaster Live! (rev.10) at 0xe400, irq 19
2 [V8235          ]: VIA8233 - VIA 8235
                     VIA 8235 at 0xd000, irq 22

How will my system decide which card would be /dev/dsp ?

I am using KDE with artsd. How will arts recognize my SB Live card
(which I would like to use as primary, also I would like to use
the OSS emulation as well since not all the programs are
ALSA-aware).

Thanking you in advance,
Tamas