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Set default sound card

Hello there!

I have ASUS M4A78-E motherboard. I've disabled Onboard sound card (VIA VT1708S) and installed Audigy sound card (c-media sb 8738 5.1 channel (CMI8738/PCI-6ch-LX)). My system detects now two audio devices.

Code:

$lspci -v

01:05.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RS780 Azalia controller

  Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc RS780 Azalia controller

  Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19

  Memory at fbdfc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]

  Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3

  Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+

  Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel

  Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel



04:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs CA0106 Soundblaster

  Subsystem: Creative Labs SB0570 [SB Audigy SE]

  Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 20

  I/O ports at ec00 [size=32]

  Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

  Kernel driver in use: CA0106

  Kernel modules: snd-ca0106

ATI HDMI (part of the gpu) and my Audigy sound card. ATI HDMI is a dafault sound card now

Code:

cat /proc/asound/cards

 0 [HDMI          ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI HDMI

                      HDA ATI HDMI at 0xfbdfc000 irq 19

 1 [CA0106        ]: CA0106 - CA0106

                      Audigy SE [SB0570] at 0xec00 irq 20

I've disabled HDA ATI HDMI in Gnome sound preference. How can I change default sound card on Audigy?

Thanks,

There are a couple different ways to do this;
.asoundrc
http://alsa.opensrc.org/.asoundrc
depending on your baselayout version
/etc/modules.d/alsa or
/etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf
http://groups.google.com/group/linux...bdddda5b1f1b9f
http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Mu...an_GNU.2FLinux
/etc/asound.conf
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/ALSA#...t_Sound_Device
HTH

Quote:

Originally Posted by comprookie2000 (Post 3906309)

Thank you comprookie2000!

I'm using baselayout version 1.

Code:

# emerge -p baselayout



These are the packages that would be merged, in order:



Calculating dependencies... done!

[ebuild  R  ] sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.13

I've added this lines to my /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf file

Code:

# --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---

#set default sound card

options snd-ca0106 index=0

alias snd-card-1 snd-hda-intel

options snd-hda-intel index=1

options snd cards_limit=2

Code:

# cat /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf 

# Alsa kernel modules' configuration file.



# ALSA portion

# OSS/Free portion



##

## IMPORTANT:

## You need to customise this section for your specific sound card(s)

## and then run `update-modules' command.

## Read alsa-driver's INSTALL file in /usr/share/doc for more info.

##

##  ALSA portion

## alias snd-card-0 snd-interwave

## alias snd-card-1 snd-ens1371

##  OSS/Free portion

## alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0

## alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1

##



# OSS/Free portion - card #1

##  OSS/Free portion - card #2

## alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss

## alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss

## alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss



alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss

alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss

alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss



# Set this to the correct number of cards.



# --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---

# --- ALSACONF version 1.0.21 ---

alias snd-card-0 snd-ca0106

alias sound-slot-0 snd-ca0106

# --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---

#set default sound card

options snd-ca0106 index=0

alias snd-card-1 snd-hda-intel

options snd-hda-intel index=1

options snd cards_limit=2