Having two sound card in a machine

[Anil Kumar Sharma]

Multiple sound cards, or VGA/AGP, network, TV tuners, modem(?) etc, all
should work on PC.
Generally kudzu should take care of new introduced hardware else DIY the
hardway or fedora-list-way.
I have two sound cards. On-board one is a 5.1 channel so it consumes all
three sound ports (spk/aux/mic) for 6 channels.
So for having a mic, I had to plugin another PCI based sound card. Works
well. I use Kmix.
It provides a midi port also, used for gamepad by kids.
It is a different matter that I have difficulty configuring 5.1 channels in
Linux, which otherwise works well in dual boot side for kids.


On 1/5/06, John Wendel <jwendel10 at comcast.net > wrote:
>
> Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
>
> >Hello,
> >Is it possible to have two sound card in a machine ?
> >
> >Why, you ask ? Well my motherboard has a built in one (with VIA 8237)
> that
> >works allright. Unfortunately the it does not have a MIDI interface,
> which I
> >need to capture MIDI from an instrument. I am thinking to get one of the
> >cheapo soundcard ( < $10 ) just for the MIDI interface, so the sound from
> >that card is probably not very good.
> >So basically what I want is to use my current soundcard to play sound,
> and a
> >second soundcard to capture MIDI (probably using Alsa too). Is that even
> >possible? Any hints or pointer on how to configure Alsa to do something
> like
> >that (for example if the two cards require different driver) ? Other
> >suggestions are welcomed too.
> >
> >Thanks a lot.
> >
> >RDB
>



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Anil Kumar Shrama
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