How to send system sounds to fw card?

[canhoto]

Hi.

How do I route all system sounds to an external firewire card?

Thanks

[Shadow_7]

The simplest way is to reindex the drivers so the fw card is card 0 aka the default.

You can have an .asoundrc with defaults.pcm.card # where # is the card number in /proc/asound/cards.

If pulseaudio is your main sound configuration you can select it there with pavucontrol. You can also run pulseaudio over jack and run jack against the fw card. Not exactly default options in most cases, but options that could be used.