muti sound card linux
i am reporting that udev does not work. i have fixed the default sound card selection by removing my second sound card. i would like the second sound card to easily be configurable, and to stay as i am trying to use it as a monitor.
why is alsa default sound card configuration so effing difficult? this is the 4th time ive had problems with it. i have gotten it set to behave once, and past that its all been non functional. i mean i plug in the values of my sound card, vendor and such and it never works. the alsa manuals are written by a crazy person. i mean really why should it be so hard to say "use sound card a as default" why 10 hour long nights of fighting to get something this simple done. one page says something about loading the module order. one problem, i do not use modules, and my kernel has both sound cards built in. the other method is to use udev, and that method is always non functional. there is no clear cut way to lsusb and lspci to get the card id's then to plug them into udev. |
I always compile them as modules and let alsa control the sound cards. For my main sound card I use a proven winner.
Code:
opteron david # lsmod | grep snd The default sound card is snd_emu10k1x, so for alsamixer it is; Code:
alsamixer Code:
alsamixer -c 1 Code:
# OSS/Free portion - card #1 Code:
lspci | grep audio On a side note some distros provide an alsa-driver package that compile the modules. I never use this. I use the modules from the kernel but do install alsa-tools alsa-utils, stuff like that. Not sure how slackware does it. |
my problem is making "alsamixer -c 1" run as "alsamixer"
i said forget it and black listed my other board. ones a pci, the other would require lsusb =) |
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