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Kangatux 05-03-2013 05:04 AM
Problem with choosing sound device
 
I've now installed Slackware64 14 on my Sony Vaio laptop. I have three sound cards (or what are recognised as sound cards anyway): internal, HDMI and external USB speakers.

The problem is that the sound is not directed into my external USB speakers in most cases, but instead goes through the in-built ones in my laptop. I've tried rectifying this in KDE system settings, by setting the USB as the preferred driver in phonon, but it still doesn't work - chrome, opera, mplayer and others default to the inbuilt speakers.

I know the speakers work fine, since audacious directs sound through them nicely.

H_TeXMeX_H 05-03-2013 05:46 AM
Try:
http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:har...s_on_slackware
Or:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...3/#post4836458

Kangatux 05-03-2013 10:54 AM
I did both of those, but now that I rebooted my system the USB sound card isn't loaded at all by ALSA. Using "lsmod | grep snd" I can see it's loaded into the system anyway...

H_TeXMeX_H 05-03-2013 11:34 AM
Try doing just the second recommendation then and undo the first.

Kangatux 05-12-2013 03:18 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by H_TeXMeX_H (Post 4944269)
Try doing just the second recommendation then and undo the first.
Okay, just doing the second made alsa not load the usb sound card at all. And I think the problem with the first method is that the usb card is assigned to a different hw ?,0 value each time I start the system. Can that be fixed?

H_TeXMeX_H 05-12-2013 03:48 AM
Can you post the output of
Code:
cat /proc/asound/modules

Kangatux 05-12-2013 04:44 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by H_TeXMeX_H (Post 4949424)
Can you post the output of
Code:
cat /proc/asound/modules
bash-4.2$ cat /proc/asound/modules
0 snd_hda_intel
1 snd_hda_intel
2 snd_usb_audio

H_TeXMeX_H 05-12-2013 05:05 AM
So have you tried putting this in '/lib/modprobe.d/sound.conf'

Code:
options snd_usb_audio index=0
options snd_hda_intel index=1
And then run '/etc/rc.d/rc.alsa' or reboot.

Kangatux 05-12-2013 05:17 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by H_TeXMeX_H (Post 4949448)
So have you tried putting this in '/lib/modprobe.d/sound.conf'

Code:
options snd_usb_audio index=0
options snd_hda_intel index=1
And then run '/etc/rc.d/rc.alsa' or reboot.
Well, I put:

Code:
options snd_usb_audio index=0
options snd_hda_intel index=1
options snd_hda_intel index=2
And then I rebooted, which led to the usb card not being loaded at all by alsa.

H_TeXMeX_H 05-12-2013 05:42 AM
I guess the next thing I would try is blacklisting 'snd_hda_intel'.

Kangatux 05-21-2013 03:29 PM
Well, it seems the problem is finally solved! I managed to get the usb speakers loaded as card 2 every time by not starting them until after the system has loaded; seeing as they now are permanently loaded as hw 2,0, I put the following into ~/.asoundrc:

Code:
  pcm.!default {
        type hw
        card 2
        device 0
  }
  ctl.!default {
        type hw
        card 2
        device 0
  }
Thanks for all the help :)


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