two soundcards and realplayer

[Mathew Kanner]

On Oct 25, Martin V??a wrote:
> Hi,
> I use two soundcards on my Freebsd5.1 box - Sb Live and SB AWE64, FreeBSD somehow figured out that
> Live is better than Awe and made it "primary" soundcard. The reason I have AWE still in computer, is
> it's amplyfing skills /2x4W/ so I don't need aditional amplyfier. With Xmms it's fine, I just changed
> confile and enjoy music. But I can't figure out how to swap soundcards in RealPlayer and Mplayer.
> Is there a way how to change it system wide?

	FreeBSD current, sysctl hw.snd.unit, the default unit used by
/dev/dsp.

	Realplayer also checks an enviroment variable AUDIO (which
defaults to /dev/dsp), so in bach you could, 
	export AUDIO=/dev/dsp1.0

	--Mat

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