Multiple sound cards?

jludwig wralphie at comcast.net
Sun Apr 30 18:45:46 UTC 2006


On Wednesday 26 April 2006 8:36 pm, patrick wrote:
> Does anyone have any experience with multiple sound cards in a PC
> running Fedora? I'm wondering if there's any sort of practical limit
> besides the number of ISA or PCI slots in a machine? And more
> specifically, let's say you have 3 or 4 sound cards and an
> adequately-powered machine, would Linux have any trouble playing
> different MP3 files to each card?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Patrick
I have played multiple files through the same sound card and have found that 
the issue to be more of buss/cpu/hard drive/buffer throughput. 

I would check Alsa out for multiple sound cards and sound processing.
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