alsa uses wrong card [post attempt 4]

moob8 · 09-21-2006, 10:20 AM

So I installed slackware two days ago. Somehow the install actually found the two sound cards and set them up in alsa. Very nice. Of course, being that there are two sound cards there was a 50% chance it would get it wrong, which it did. How can I have alsa use the *other* card as the default/main sound card? Thanks.

I used the button above to find similar threads. Their solutions did not work (of course). Tried to go to a url it won't let me say here and got "An error occurred while loading a url I can't say here Could not connect to host an ip I can't say here".

Riiiiight.

moob8 · 09-21-2006, 10:21 AM

the url i can't say here of course is the alsa site, btw.

dive · 09-21-2006, 10:25 AM

Here's how I set mine up.

With a SB16 and an Audigy 4, I made a file called sound in /etc/modprobe.d/:

Code:

 alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
 alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1
 alias snd-card-1 snd-ens1371
 alias sound-slot-1 snd-ens1371
 options snd-emu10k1 index=0
 options snd-ens1371 index=1

Then mixer controls etc can be accessed with -c switch

cathectic · 09-21-2006, 11:19 AM

I have Alsa compiled into my custom kernel, so I use the following append lines (instead of dive's method for modules - use one or the other of these solutions depending on how you have compiled Alsa, not both):

(In this case, I have an Audigy 2 Notebook PCMCIA card that I want to take precedence over the built-in sound).

Code:

snd-emu10k1.index=0 snd-atiixp.index=1

moob8 · 09-25-2006, 11:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dive

Here's how I set mine up.

With a SB16 and an Audigy 4, I made a file called sound in /etc/modprobe.d/:

Code:

 alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
 alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1
 alias snd-card-1 snd-ens1371
 alias sound-slot-1 snd-ens1371
 options snd-emu10k1 index=0
 options snd-ens1371 index=1

Then mixer controls etc can be accessed with -c switch

How odd. I did not have a directory called "modprobe.d". So I made one. Made a file called sound as you did. Used my two cards in the order I wanted them. Booted.

It didn't work.

Now what?

PS - I'm using the 10.0 version of slackware. I won't be even thinking of upgrading that until everything is working and stable first.

dive · 09-25-2006, 11:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by moob8

How odd. I did not have a directory called "modprobe.d".
<snip>

PS - I'm using the 10.0 version of slackware. I won't be even thinking of upgrading that until everything is working and stable first.

You need to find which file to put those commands in then or upgrade to 10.2 ( or wait till 11.0 is released which should be soon ) and then try it because a lot has changed since 10.0 - i.e. different files in different locations, different udev to name but a few.

gbonvehi · 09-25-2006, 01:19 PM

moob8, you should put that content in /etc/modprobe.conf or /etc/modules.conf, I don't remember which one is used on 10.0. /etc/modprobe.d/ is not used on Slackware (at least not by default..)
Be sure to put the modules your sound cards use if they're not the same as cathectic's (snd-emu10k1 and snd-ens1371)

dive · 09-25-2006, 01:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gbonvehi

/etc/modprobe.d/ is not used on Slackware (at least not by default..)

modprobe.d is created by udev and/or module-init-tools

moob8 · 09-25-2006, 09:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gbonvehi

moob8, you should put that content in /etc/modprobe.conf or /etc/modules.conf, I don't remember which one is used on 10.0. /etc/modprobe.d/ is not used on Slackware (at least not by default..)
Be sure to put the modules your sound cards use if they're not the same as cathectic's (snd-emu10k1 and snd-ens1371)

Coolness!!!! that was the hint I needed. I put those lines from dive (edited for my two sound cards) in /etc/modules.conf (commented out the lines already in there) and then rebooted. Audio the way I wanted. Excellent. Thank you all.