LGW wrote:
> I have:
> Event Gina20, using the snd-echoaudio alsa driver written by Giuliano
> Pochini (works fine on its own)
> some via onboard thingy, using the snd-via82xx driver (works fine on its
> own)
>
> Even with only the two alsa cards I have the problem that, if I try to
> load both cards' modules, I get all the pcm-devices:
> /dev/snd:
> pcmC0D0c, pcmC0D0p, pcmC1D0c, ....
> for both cards - but only one mixer device is available!
> /dev/snd/controlC0

I guess card 0 is the VIA AC'97 controller, and card 1 is the Gina. (?)
Apparently, the snd-echoaudio driver doesn't provide any mixer
controls.

> To make anything more complicated, I also have an Hauppauge WinTV, which
> has an audio mixer/direct record device supported by a kernel module
> (btaudio), which registers /dev/dsp, /dev/dsp1 and /dev/mixer.
>
> But forget that TV card.

I won't. :-)  I'm planning to port the btaudio driver to ALSA.

> That's the first problem. The second is that I need to control volume
> via the oss emulation, and if the btaudio module is loaded, the
> snd-mixer-oss module complains (via dmesg) that it cannot lock the mixer
> resource 0:0 (which is no doubt true because there sits the mixer of the
> hauppauge card!)

You are not supposed to use OSS and ALSA drivers at the same time.
(You can use them alternatively as long as you remove all "other"
drivers with rmmod before loading.)


HTH
Clemens




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