[fluid-dev] multiple sound cards

[Garett Shulman]

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)