two soundcards and realplayer

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Sunday 26 October 2003 05:41, Martin Váňa wrote:
> 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?

In 4.x you can do 
cd /dev
sudo sh ./MAKEDEV snd1

With 5.x (and DEVFS), do
hw.snd.unit=1


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