How to manage order of sound devices in alsa?

funkynesh · 02-23-2007, 10:52 PM

Hello,

I have an integrated audio device on my nforce2 motherboard as well as a logitech quickcam. Unfortunately, when the logitech is plugged I am loosing my sound in kde.
After digging a little bit I discovered that Slackware assign the following (cat /proc/asound/cards):
device 0 is the Logitech
device 1 is the nforce2

How can I change the order for these devices, I want the inverse.

Thank you.

adriv · 02-24-2007, 06:00 AM

You should turn sound-on-board off in your BIOS.
That'll fix it.

dive · 02-24-2007, 07:10 AM

Hi, it depends on your version of udev. You need specifically find the names that alsa uses for your cards and set up aliases. Heres my /etc/modprobe.d/sound file. You need just specify which slot to use for which card.

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

If you have an older version of udev then these will go in /etc/modules.conf I believe.

funkynesh · 02-24-2007, 09:46 AM

Thank you Dive, that solved my problem.