Multiple Sound Cards

I run sound out of my computer from two sources: the native sound card built into my motherboard, and an aftermarket device from Creative Labs called a Sound Blaster X-Fi Go. I use the output from my motherboard to run into my monitor's built-in speakers for regular tasks, and I use the output from the X-Fi to run into a stereo system.
What I would like to do is to run the iTunes output directly into the stereo. However, I don't want to make my system default the X-Fi output, as I'd still like for regular computer sound (games and whatnot) to run through the monitor speakers. When using Windows Media Player for streaming music, I have an option to choose which output source I'd like for that particular program to use. However, I've been unable to locate the same option within iTunes. Does anyone have a solution to making iTunes use the secondary audio output instead of the default?

A way of doing what i think you want is as follows.
Create a GUI containing,
1) A Jtable
2) A Jlist
3) buttons or menus or keylisteners (whichever you want to start your
methods)
Firstly the Jtable columns, should be
1) Track Number (optional)
2) File Name
3) A ComboBox For Mixer
First set up your Jtable to populate the ComboBox with the Mixers available on the system
Second populate the Jlist with names of your mp3 files.
Third add event listeners to either double click on mp3 file names to add them to the Jtable or use the mouse to do this, whichever you prefer.
Then add your play/stop methods. It should go through the rows of the Jtable, checking the mp3 file name, and the mixer slected and then play it through the one ya want!
IF you get this far, you can even add, mute, pan, gain and balance on each row easily enough.
But first things first, if you want to go this way of doing it. Create the GUI , populate the combo box with the mixers and get the mp3 files listed.
Then concentrate on getting the file name into the Jtable and finally get the music playing.
It will take abit of research and head scratching but its very possible.

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Multiple sound cards and FP sessions

I would like to provide multiple channels of AOL Radio to my
company's telephone music-on-hold. My Windows XP workstation has an
M-Audiio Delta 1010LT audio card with 4 integrated sound cards. In
Windows Control Panel -> “Sounds & Audio
Devices’ all 4 "cards" are shown and I can set any of them to
the default audio device. An AOL Radio stream will use the default
"card". If I open 2, 3, or 4 sessions, they *ALL* are
simultaneously streamed to the default sound "card" – not the
desired behavior! I can select any one of the 4 “cards”
and assign it as default and as many AOL Radio Flash Player
sessions that are running will stream to that default "card". Thus
all four “cards” can render an audio stream.
My question is this, Is there a mechanism to pair FP sessions
with specific sound “cards”?
Thanks for any help anyone can provide.

Hi,
It's hard to say what the cause is of your problem. It may be that LabVIEW is looking at the default sound card in your system and ignores the rest. This may happen if you are using the Play sound VIs.
The way to achieve two outputsis by opening up the WAV
file and use the Snd Write Waveform VI. One of the inputs for this VI
is the device number. Usually they start at 0 and increment by one. You
can have a VI where you open the 2 files and then use 2 write waveform
vis using different device numbers.
You can get all the
information about the soundcards by calling the Windows SDK, however
this can take some work and may be easier to do it in a DLL.
Are you using the Sound and Vibration Toolkit? If so what version? What sound cards are you using and what version of Windows are you using?
Regards,
Nadim
Applications Engineering
National Instruments

Multiple target datalines to multiple sound cards

Is there any way to accomplish the following:
I have 4 distinct sound cards. I am using 4 distinct target datalines (1 dataline per 1 microphone input), each in a separate thread, to sample sound.
Let me start with this question, is this scenario even possible with the current implementation of Java Sound?
If the microphones are in a linear array, spaced evenly apart, I would expect to see the the sound at the last microphone arrive after the sound of the first microphone. However, this does not always occur. This leads me to believe that one or more of the threads reading the target datalines is being starved.
I've checked for buffer overflows as follows:
          int internalBufferSize = tdl.getBufferSize();
                    if (internalBufferSize == tdl.available()) {
                     System.err.println("Buffer overflow detected!");
                     }I'm not getting any buffer overflow errors.
As an experiment, I've attempted to attach multiple target datalines to a single sound device. While that will work fine (i.e., Java doesn't complain), I notice that when I read the data from the target datalines, I'm only getting the data from one or the other lines, but NOT both at the same time. Even though this isn't the same scenario I proposed, is there something in the Java Sound implementation that will prevent one target dataline per sound device in a JVM?
I'm fairly new to Java Sound, and I'm at a complete loss. I've gotten the same solution to work in other languages, however, I need Java for this particular application.

Markus00000 wrote:
In
/etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf
I put
options snd-hda-intel index=0
options snd-usb-audio index=1
If you give your default sound card index 0 and your USB camera a higher index, it might work.
Thanks a lot. This indeed solved the problem.
jmak

[SOLVED] Multiple sound cards don't work with Arch

Before you post, make sure you do not list any of these programs that I should use, to configure everything:
alsamixer
alsaconf
kmix
xfce4-mixer
edit: I need to specify what my default sound device is as I have 2 different sound cards, a Logitech ClearChat Comfort, and a TurtleBeach AK-R8.
Websites of my sound products:
http://www.turtlebeach.com/products/akr8/home.aspx
http://www.realtek.com.tw/products/prod … ProdID=135
http://www.fatal1ty.com/products/scards/660.php
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/webca … 1&cl=US,EN
I use Windows for gaming (in virtualbox) on America's Army, so good audio is a must when you play against the best.
The reason I state that is because those lack the features I need. I am trying to find gnome-sound-properties and since I needed sound working very fast, and a distro that already has it installed, I am currently on Ubuntu (please do not harass me or insult me about this as I hate it very much and I need to get back to software development) since all I need to do is go to System > Preferences > Sound. Is a picture of what I am looking for:
Last edited by Neo_The_User (2009-09-27 23:28:38)

Solved. all i needed to do was turn up the center and surround thing in alsamixer. works now in true 5.1

[SOLVED] multiple sound cards?

Why i have two sounds cards in my system?
bagheera@tux:~$ cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [PCH ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH
HDA Intel PCH at 0xfa400000 irq 53
1 [NVidia ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
HDA NVidia at 0xfa080000 irq 17
i don't have /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf file.
My modbo is Asus P8H67-M EVO R3.0 and video card is GeForce GTX 460.
nvidia card has 4 spdif channels. Is that 4 hdmi outputs in my GFX card? In fact it is 2xDVI an 1xhdmi
Last edited by bagheera (2011-10-16 07:40:20)

My system is similar;
[ninez@ninez ~]$ cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [NVidia ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
HDA NVidia at 0xf9f78000 irq 21
1 [NVidia_1 ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
HDA NVidia at 0xfbffc000 irq 19
I'm pretty sure the 2nd device is HDMI, but i haven't used it anyway, as i use an external audio interface.

Multiple Sound Card for data acquisition gives read buffer error

I am using 6 usb based sound cards for voltages and currents mearuments of a three phase delta system.. Hardware is working well. but in labview when i use builtin Input=>sound box for data acquisition it also works well upto 4 inputs... but when i use more i.e. 6 it starts giving error "cannt perform action, read buffer is full" some thing like this... som times it goes to "not responding"...i have tried to find the solution and found in another post of this fourm to varry the sampling rate... i did it upto 96000 that is maximum ... but still problem is same...i need to know, how to manually increase the read buffer. if not possible then.. is there any way that labview stop giving any type of error during simulation?

thnx i hv solved that problem ... now there is another problem... i am getting all my signals in computer but problem comes when i use phase detector. it keep on showing different values in phase measurement block.. how can i manage the signal with correct phase. i cannt send code cz it has many VIs and they are spread in computer. so i am pasting come photos that are showing different. look in picture...it is from same signal and the phase is different..
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Multiple sound cards on one syst

is that possible? to control different sound environments...
If yes how many can I have on one system, what type of hardware/software to control it's
I will like to have on Windows.
Regards
DonabDon

does the store account list the distinct gift cards to select when making a purchase or automatically charge the cc on file?
No.
It charges gift cards first, then from CC.
If you have different users, they should create their own iTunes account and add their gift cads to their own account.

Want to use 2 sound cards

I have been checking around and have noticed on some of the web cast sites that there are possibility in using multiple sound cards on one machine. The basic functionality is possible pending IRQ and BIOS settings.
I currently have an older SBLive Platinum W/ Live drive and have tweaked it out pretty nicely for basic I/O.
I was capable of getting most of the routing possibilitys working on that EMU Chipset with an opensource program I found a while back along with the Audigy drivers. I would like to keep using the card and the bay. Could revert very easily back to the original software and drivers.
Enter problem........
I have been made aware of the possibility that the X-Fi Platinum is "in the cards" for X-Mas. And I am intrigued by the newer functionality. Then I start thinkin' see....
2 bays
2 cards
2 midi in
2 midi out
2 headphone
etc. etc. etc.
What about 2 seperate sets of control software that is used for each card. Main output from one, monitor output from the other. Control room out from one, Tape out out the other. ASIO, ASIO, ASIO Hmmm.
I have no experience using two cards in one machine but considering I was given' the first card to begin with and now I may be gettin' a second one of higher quality I wonder If anyone has any data concerning the 2 card issue.
Thanks for any responses in advance.

Hey....
Interesting that this post has a view of 77 and the response I get is a question...... but cool.
I will try to help.
Not that familiar with the 2000 Platform but I would start by doing a full uninstall of the current drivers and software for the SB Platinum. Download the LiveDrive-Uni Pack from the update link. Getting rid of your old audio drivers is a fairly importaant step.
http://us.creative.com/support/downloads/downloadive
Then DL the software if you want all that stuff.
I remember that when I first started fiddling with this unit I had a similiar situation where I could not get the audio on the front bay to function properly.
I think the driver update took care of the issue.
At any rate .... I have just done a clean install of XP, got the video card screamin, and I am going to re-install the Platinum with the drive tonight. I am going to try with a minimum of the bundled software so driver and AudioHQ with Creative mixer are about all I am interested in.
The Emu 10kx drivers are supported on this card as well as the Audigy, with that said the Kx drivers from Lugosoft might be of interest if you cant get the Creative stuff working.
I will post again with the process if all goes well.
There is a whole slew of settings that could go wrong with this IMHO 'GLITCHY' card.
I am gonna' get it to work with the new X-FI If my life depends on it.
http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/index.php?skip=1

[Solved] Alsa Sound Card Numbering Not Persistant Between Boots

Hello,
I'm having trouble with alsa and my multiple sound cards. Sometimes when I boot, I get the following output from "aplay -l"
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC889A Analog [ALC889A Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: ALC889A Digital [ALC889A Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
However, I also see this after other boots:
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 1: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC889A Analog [ALC889A Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: ALC889A Digital [ALC889A Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Because the card numbering is not consistant, I'm having a great deal of trouble (if the card is 0, then I don't need an asoundrc, but if it's 1, I do). It also breaks my volume panel applet for the alsa card number to often change (volumeicon - from the AUR). Is there a way to force a certain device to always be card number 0?
Thanks for any help.
-Sean
Last edited by szim90 (2012-01-15 02:01:54)

Thank you for your response, karol.
I ran 'udevadm info -a -p /sys/class/sound/card1/' as was able to get the following information:
looking at device '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.2/sound/card1':
KERNEL=="card1"
SUBSYSTEM=="sound"
DRIVER==""
ATTR{id}=="SB"
ATTR{number}=="1"
looking at parent device '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.2':
KERNELS=="0000:00:14.2"
SUBSYSTEMS=="pci"
DRIVERS=="snd_hda_intel"
ATTRS{vendor}=="0x1002"
ATTRS{device}=="0x4383"
ATTRS{subsystem_vendor}=="0x1458"
ATTRS{subsystem_device}=="0xa102"
ATTRS{class}=="0x040300"
ATTRS{irq}=="16"
ATTRS{local_cpus}=="00000000,0000000f"
ATTRS{local_cpulist}=="0-3"
ATTRS{numa_node}=="0"
ATTRS{dma_mask_bits}=="64"
ATTRS{consistent_dma_mask_bits}=="64"
ATTRS{broken_parity_status}=="0"
ATTRS{msi_bus}==""
looking at parent device '/devices/pci0000:00':
KERNELS=="pci0000:00"
SUBSYSTEMS==""
DRIVERS==""
I'm completely new to writing udev rules; would the proper procedure be to write something like this:
DEVPATH=="/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.2/sound/card*" ATTRS{number}="0"
or will that happen too late in the boot process (after the card has already been assigned a number)?
Perhaps it would be easier to work through alsa itself? I know I can get sound consistantly by calling out the card in asoundrc:
pcm.!default { type hw card SB }
ctl.!default { type hw card SB }
But this seems to disable dmix (software mixing). Is there a way to re-enable dmix from the asoundrc (and would that be easier than trying to work in udev)?
Regards,
Sean

Multiple sound car

I am useing windows xp and it says I can use multiple sound cards. I was wondering if I could use multiple sound blaster li've cards in one machine? If so what is the limit of cards other than the number of slots on the motherboard.
Mike

I was told the same thing about putting identical cards in a computer would be a problem. I think mostly because of address, irq, and driver conflicts. Right now I have an old sound blaster card from my hp computer installed into a mother board running Win XP with no problems yet but I have not been able to play around with it yet.
My recording software will let me set the input device. I have to get set up with two audio sources to see if I can record tracks with each sound card at one time. This will tell me that everything is ok. But these are two different audio devices and many people have said they have had no problems doing this.
I am also wondering about the audio controll panel. If two sound devices can coexist how do you control the other inputs on each card. Like the cd in, aux audio, mic. s/pdif ect. Doses each card get its own audio mixer panel?
Right now an earlier post claims to be able to use both cards of the same type.
Mike

Sound card detection - simple solution

Hello,
this goes to all who are interested. The question how to detect a sound card was brought up in the past, and I found a quite simple way to do it. To my knowledge, this was not posted before.
The following code returns true if a sound card is present and enabled. I tested it on a couple of machines, and it seems to work just fine. It even works in Applets.
import javax.sound.sampled.*;
private boolean detectSoundcard() {
Line.Info il = new Line.Info(TargetDataLine.class);
return AudioSystem.isLineSupported(il);
} // detectSoundCard
Comments are very welcome,
Stefan

I am trying to do the same sort of thing but with multiple sound cards. Do you by any chance know how to get a list of available sound cards on a machine and then choose which card the player will use? Your help is appreciated.

Since Vista doesn't work correctly on XFI Pro Elite.. What other sound card solutions do wo

I am not looking for a flame war - just to honestly get some advice from others on what other solid sound cards do you know that work properly when hooking up optical inputs and such and have a wide selection of inputs like the creative xfi elite pro's breakout box. M

Ok an update. I am very persistant - was up to 4am trying to fix this and trying to go through every possible problem. That right there shows there is some serious problems with creative's software and drivers. It is suppose to be easy, not require someone who has a master's degree in computer science 2 hours to sort through the problems. It would help if there was just a clear install guide telling exactly what needs to be done - or better yet - gasp - an installer than actually did all the complicated things for you. (Creative - see Installshield and an expert consultant - they can help you. It will be worth outsourcing your efforts to get a clean view on things. I suspect the people putting these driver packages at creatives have been there a while and have lost perspecti've). It is possible to get the soundcard working to a degree on Vista. Things to realize (the following works if an only if you only have one creative product installed. Otherwise it could screw up your system):?
Make am imagine of your Windows before and after this. Before because its easy to screw things up. After because once you get it working you will never want to do it again.<
Order or find on torrent the Official Vista Install CD [do not install it yet]. Download it. Its large - or order it and pay $9 for shipping and handling. (I think they are paying a courier to hand deli'ver it and also bring me coffee since it is so expensi've). You can not get this from creative's online site. (Imagine that).<
You must uninstall manually everything that creative installs at all before going to next step.<
You must uninstall everything that is nati've audio to your system (e.g. built on the motherboard).<
There must not be other audio drivers or audio software installed.<
After you uninstall all this - make sure you also uninstall creative's drivers, any other drivers of an audio nature, and make sure you check the box that says "delete drivers" when you uninstall.<
REBOOT<
Remove any other audio products from the system if possible. If built on a motherboard - see next step.<
Go into the BIOS. Disable anything that is audio related. Save your settings.<
REBOOT (again).<
Go delete every registry setting that is in your registry hi've using regedit that is creative xfi related. (This can take some time because there are many sub devices, and not everything says "creative" on it.)? Good luck.<
Delete everything in your program files under creative (remember to make sure you do this as an administrator with adminstrator permissions - thanks UAC).<
Delete everything in users/[every user name here that runs on your system]/appdata/local/creative<
Delete everything in users/[every user name here that runs on your system]/roaming/creative<
[another words - delete everything you can find creative related to the xfi] - again be careful if you have more than one creative product - you could screw your system.<
Install the Official Vista CD. Install ALL the software with ALL options. Click yes to a thousands OK yes I agree to install. Make sure you install this with administrati've privliedges.<
REBOOT (again).<
Register (why not - you did everything else)<
Update all the software that it says to update. This will take?a long time because all of the software that is on the CD is out of date. <
Alchemy will not update because you will have just updated a new set of drivers. So...<
REBOOT (again).<
Update all of software again that it says to update. (Creatives update manager works decently).<
Alchemy will finish installing.<
REBOOT (again).<
Do not use control/panel/sound to adjust things - its useless<
Make sure you use the Creative XFI Volume Panel (It is not the same as the Windows Volume). Great job naming this guys... Set what you want... the sound should be working.<
NOTE:? SPDIF seems to be not available in Games (Sorry folks who run PS3 Optical through this device - your SOL - thanks Creative). To do this you must use it in Entertainment mode - but wait... SPDIF is disable by default. You must go to the mixer and enable it.<
Now with this being said - many things still won't be functional. E.g. there is no dolby through SPDIF, etc. Many of the features that were sold with this card - simply are not available in the Vista drivers. Also note that to use the latest Alchemy that is on the web site (not through the updates) you have to hunt down and find beta drivers and install those - which automatically expire later on in the year. Good jobs guys with this too... not very smart creative.<
SO there you have it. I am sure I may have missed a step - so if someone trys this and has a question - I will try to help. This is ridiculous though that someone has to go through this. A Windows service pack for the OS is easier than this. Creative get a clue - - fire some of your developers and get some that can do a decent job programming the drivers after 2 years of alpha's and betas and release - and create a decent install product. I shudder to think of the poor souls who bought more than one creative product. Good luck sorting through the directory, shared files, registry hi'ves, etc. to get your software working. If I hadn't paid a large some of money for this piece of hardware I would have never spent so much time on it. I figure even at $30 an hour - its about $400 in effort just to figure the above out, search through all the registry, hunt through the multiple directories of Vista, download the software, find out which software you have to download, etc. I am posting it here so that the average person who spent a couple hundred bucks on this card doesn't spend hundreds of dollars of time trying to get it to work on Vista.
My advice for newbies to computers - go to best buy - spend $50 for install and tell them to get it all working perfectly in your PC. Best Buy is overpriced on everything now adays anyway... they wanted $40 for a hdmi to dvi converter when you can order one online for $5. They seem to be the 7- of Electronics.
Please creative - clean up your act.
Michael

Lost the ability to play multiple sounds!

Since switching to archlinux, the only problem that I am unable solve is the inablity to play multiple sounds.. i had this problem when i first installed archlinux. back then i tried installing pulseaudio and found that cumbersome. eventually went back to alsa and found magically i could play sounds at once..
now again it has reoccurred ever since the module init tools upgrade. i have tried reconfiguring alsa with alsaconf with no avail.
on trying to play sound file from the 2nd app i get a knotif saying
The audio playback device HDA Intel (ALC880 Analog) does not work
Falling back to .
some of the conf files i have:
[$]> grep MODULES /etc/rc.conf
# MODULES: Modules to load at boot-up. Prefix with a ! to blacklist.
# NOTE: Use of 'MOD_BLACKLIST' is deprecated. Please use ! in the MODULES array.
MODULES=(e100 mii slhc snd-hda-intel snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-hwdep snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-timer snd soundcore !snd-pcsp)
[$]> grep DAEMONS /etc/rc.conf
# DAEMONS
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng dbus @network netfs crond alsa hal cups @openntpd)
[$]> cat /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf
# /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf (for v2.6 kernels)
[$]> cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
alias sound-slot-0 snd-hda-intel
[$]> cat /etc/libao.conf
default_driver=alsa10
[$]> lspci | grep -i audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 03)

djszapi wrote:It seems to good. Did you try pulseaudio now too ?
no i dont want to. it doesn't seem right with kde

What are multiple video cards good for?

Yeah, I know it is probably a dorky question but I would certainly like to know the answer before I start pricing my future Mac Pro. What I'm thinking about is online gaming stuff (which I'm just getting into so I'm still a little clueless). My question is:
Are four GeForce 7300 cards better than one X1900 for gaming/graphics?
It sounds like from the other posts that the X1900 is the superior card. Am I reading things correctly?
Thanks,
Toast
867 MHz G4 Powerbook Mac OS X (10.4.8)

One advantage of multiple video cards is monitor calibration. When running two monitors off of one card, it's simply not possible to (accurately), calibrate both screens. Altering the video LUT of the card to dial in one monitor will affect the calibration of the other.
On my previous G4 system, I ran two screens from separate cards (two CRTs - different makes and size). With hardware calibration, I was able to get them to match perfectly. On my Mac Pro running the same screens from only one card, I can get them close but not perfect - more importantly, I have to decide which monitor is to be properly calibrated.
Not particularly important for gaming performance but there you go ...
-phil

No sound with alsa and integrated Intel sound card, any advice???

I just got a new computer, erased the OEM windows install and installed Arch linux with xfce. I have an Integrated HDA intel sound card with Realtek ALC888 chip
Sound worked just fine in the windows install, so I know the card and speakers work.
I installed alsa and made sure to unmute PCM and Front speakers. Unmuting all of the entries didn't help. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
lsmod|grep '^snd'
snd_seq_oss 35584 0
snd_seq_midi_event 9344 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 58336 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 9364 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_hda_intel 531252 0
snd_pcm_oss 45440 0
snd_mixer_oss 18944 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_hwdep 10632 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm 82952 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 24720 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 65096 9 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer
snd_page_alloc 11792 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC888 Analog [ALC888 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC888 Digital [ALC888 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Here is my rc.conf
# /etc/rc.conf - Main Configuration for Arch Linux
# LOCALIZATION
# LOCALE: Type locale -a to see location listing
# HARDWARECLOCK: set to "UTC" or "localtime"
# USEDIRECTISA: use direct I/O requests instead of /dev/rtc for hwclock
# TIMEZONE: timezones are found in /usr/share/zoneinfo
# KEYMAP: keymaps are found in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps
# CONSOLEFONT: found in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts (only needed for non-US)
# CONSOLEMAP: found in /usr/share/kbd/consoletrans
# USECOLOR: use ANSI color sequences in startup messages
LOCALE="en_US.utf8"
HARDWARECLOCK="UTC"
USEDIRECTISA="no"
TIMEZONE="America/Detroit"
KEYMAP="us"
CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"
# HARDWARE
# MOD_AUTOLOAD: Allow autoloading of modules at boot and when needed
# MOD_BLACKLIST: Prevent udev from loading these modules
# MODULES: Modules to load at boot-up. Prefix with a ! to blacklist.
# NOTE: Use of 'MOD_BLACKLIST' is deprecated. Please use ! in the MODULES array.
MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
#MOD_BLACKLIST=() #deprecated
MODULES=()
# Scan for LVM volume groups at startup, required if you use LVM
USELVM="yes"
# NETWORKING
# HOSTNAME: Hostname of machine. Should also be put in /etc/hosts
HOSTNAME="Lychee"
# Use 'ifconfig -a' or 'ls /sys/class/net/' to see all available interfaces.
# Interfaces to start at boot-up (in this order)
# Declare each interface then list in INTERFACES
# - prefix an entry in INTERFACES with a ! to disable it
# - no hyphens in your interface names - Bash doesn't like it
# DHCP: Set your interface to "dhcp" (eth0="dhcp")
# Wireless: See network profiles below
#eth0="eth0 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255"
eth0="dhcp"
INTERFACES=(eth0)
# Routes to start at boot-up (in this order)
# Declare each route then list in ROUTES
# - prefix an entry in ROUTES with a ! to disable it
gateway="default gw 192.168.0.1"
ROUTES=(!gateway)
# Enable these network profiles at boot-up. These are only useful
# if you happen to need multiple network configurations (ie, laptop users)
# - set to 'menu' to present a menu during boot-up (dialog package required)
# - prefix an entry with a ! to disable it
# Network profiles are found in /etc/network.d
# This now requires the netcfg package
#NETWORKS=(main)
# DAEMONS
# Daemons to start at boot-up (in this order)
# - prefix a daemon with a ! to disable it
# - prefix a daemon with a @ to start it up in the background
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond hal fam)
I am going through the wikiarticl on alsa as well, but if anyone can point out what the issue is hear I would greatly appreciate it.

Hmm. I have an onboard Intel sound chipset as well.. I noticed your rc.conf doesn't have "snd-hda-intel" in the MODULES array; make sure you add that.
I never figured out how to read the right side of lsmod's output, so I'll assume that, despite having the snd-hda-intel module, you haven't enabled it yet. Try (as root or through sudo) `modprobe snd-hda-intel`. It may need underscores instead of hyphens; they seem to be interchangeable.

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