How to choose from multiple audio devices

alphachi alphachi at mediaspirit.org
Sun Sep 18 03:19:02 UTC 2016


Do you means "sysctl hw.snd.default_unit"?

2016-09-18 1:38 GMT+08:00 Manish Jain <bourne.identity at hotmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> I am FreeBSD 10.3 amd64, a system which owing to some haphazard
> shopping, now has 2 audio cards - one onboard Realtek and one add-on CMI
> card (PCI).
>
> With both cards hooked/enabled, I get sound from the CMI card. How do I
> tell applications to send audio content into the onboard Realtek device
> instead ? Currently the CMI card grabs everything, and I do not know how
> to configure things such that the Realtek card becomes the audio output
> device.
>
> With my current setup :
>
> # cat /dev/sndstat
> Installed devices:
> pcm0: <CMedia CMI8738> (play/rec) default
> pcm1: <NVIDIA (0x0051) (HDMI/DP 8ch)> (play)
> pcm2: <NVIDIA (0x0051) (HDMI/DP 8ch)> (play)
> pcm3: <Realtek ALC887 (Rear Analog)> (play/rec)
> pcm4: <Realtek ALC887 (Front Analog)> (play/rec)
> pcm5: <Realtek ALC887 (Onboard Digital)> (play)
>
> Thanks for any help
> Manish Jain
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