Adjust volume for second soundcard

Submitted by urmel on Thu, 2007-11-15 19:37

Hi,

I installed a second soundcard which is connected to my stereo. I got moc working by setting "AlsaDevice = hw:1,0" in $HOME/.moc/config and now I can play some music.

But what is nolonger working is that I can adjust the volume by pressing "," or ".". Just noting happens.... is there something more I should put into my config?

Thanks

plughw

Submitted by joshua42 on Thu, 2008-12-18 22:07.

AlsaDevice = plughw:1

For some reason "plughw" handles all bit rates, whereas just "hw" do not.

I don't know if this fixes

Submitted by hiben on Fri, 2007-11-16 17:47.

I don't know if this fixes your problem but maybe it sheds some light on the problem.

To use/configure my two soundcards in a more hardware independent way I created an alsa setup ($HOME/.asoundrc) that looks like this:

pcm.!default {
  type hw
  card 0
}

ctl.!default {
  type hw           
  card 0
}

pcm.live {
  type hw
  card 0
}

ctl.live {
  type hw
  card 0
}

pcm.via {
  type hw                                                                       
  card 1}

ctl.via {
  type hw           
  card 1
}

With this setup (for an SBLive and an internal VIA-Chipset) I use "AlsaDevice = live", "AlsaMixer = PCM" and "AlsaMixer2 = Master" in the moc-config (where the mixer names correspond to the names seen in 'alsamixer').
Maybe ALSA is confused about the controls to use for the second card but that is just a guess.