Wine & choosing one of multiple sound cards

Frogzz

Hi

I have two sound cards (SB Live & NF7 onboard) and I want to choose one of them as my default sound playback device. In winecfg I can see something like this:

Gentree · Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 3:50 pm Post subject:

keep it.

onboards tend to be mediocre. I have an AN7 with is damn close to the same thing and the onboard picks up all kinds of crap interference every time there is the slightest movement on the screen. (even the blinking emoticons produce noise!).

Also a real card will have a games port should you need joystick for anything.

I have an Ensoniq "SoundBlaster" , simple but clean sound.

I have not tried the spdif IO on the onboard because I dont have any digit devices , that may or may not be cleaner.

These things can be very h/w specific so I suggest you try it.

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Frogzz · Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 10:26 pm Post subject:

my onboard sound card is working ok under linux so anyone can halp me with my problem?

Gentree · Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 7:08 am Post subject:

What is your problem?

I would have thought you want to configure Linux not wine if you want the other sound card as default.

Look at your alsa config and reverse the order of the cards.

If I mis-understood could your be more specific?

HTH

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Frogzz · Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 2:25 pm Post subject:

I want to use onboard card in wine. Now wine is using SBLive and I don't know how to change it

Gentree · Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 2:44 pm Post subject:

Look at your alsa config and reverse the order of the cards.
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Frogzz · Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 3:05 pm Post subject:

this solution I know but I don't want to do that. I want to use SBLive as my system default (how it is now) and in wine the other card (onboard)

Frogzz · Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 6:14 pm Post subject:

enyone?

piotao · n00b Joined: 02 Nov 2006 Posts: 2 Location: GdaĹsk

I have the same problem!

My config is the following:

Gentoo 2006.1, amd64 3000+ cpu, 1GB ram, etc.
sound devices from lspci:
00:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
versions of my software:
ALSA 1.0.13
esound 0.2.36-r2
Qt: 3.3.6
KDE: 3.5.5
kde-config: 1.0

And two users:
one is using flash games, wants them to listen on big soundspeakers

the second one wants to do everything on headphones, possibly by the other card with its own sound settings

Both of them wants to have independent sound volume etc, and I don't know how to configure all those cards with alsa or some other magical stuff... Please, help!

My current config is overall alsa sound for the first user, and nosound/customized per app for the second one (audacity, xmms, and similar allows to choose specific sound device and for that way is works, but this way is crappy).
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Schizoid · Apprentice Joined: 11 Apr 2003 Posts: 267