I’ve got an on-board soundcard and a PCI one, but cannot make it (PCI) work. What’s wrong?

Maybe you have to disable your on-board soundcard. You can do this through the BIOS setup.

Another trick got mentioned on the mailing list, by jaromil:

The /dev/dsp device configured by default in dyne:bolic sound applications is a symbolic link (see ‘man ln’) to the real soundcard, and as such it can be linked to a different soundcard.

A list of the soundcard devices is given by the command:

ls /dev/snd/dsp*

which basically prints out all files starting by ‘dsp’ in the /dev/sound directory.So you can easily change it with:

ln -sf /dev/snd/dspN /dev/dsp

where N is the number of the soundcard you want, normally the onboard is the first.This way you will change the default soundcard pointed by the /dev/dsp device in dyne:bolic.

About the volume: it starts to a default value on the first soundcard, all other soundcards are muted. most simple soundcards can be setted using the ‘audio levels mixer’ from the menu, but multichannel soundcards need alsamixer (command from the XTERM) to change volumes on their channels.