Soundcards dancing around

[Jano]

Hello,

I'm using the latest dapper updates.

I have a computer with a VIA soundcard in the motherboard and a PCI
SoundBlaster. Since Breezy times, the SB appeared at /dev/dsp and the VIA
as /dev/dsp1, always.

This was convenient since I wanted the SB as default, and ALSA used the
first one so everything worked right.

Yesterday, when booting, I observed no sound. After some looking around, I
noticed with lshal that the cards where identified in reverse order, so
now /dev/dsp was the VIA one, and the default.

I changed in /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf the default card from 0 to 1,
everything seemed ok (except for flash within firefox, that I didn't manage
to make sounds). But everything else, arts, mpg123, amarok etc used the 1
default alsa card I had forced.

Today, the cards appear again in reverse, with the SB in first place. I
wonder if this is due to development changes, if there's some way to force
the default by name instead of index, and if I should report these things
to the development team, now that we are so close to release. If so, what
would the best place to do it?

Any ideas?

[Bud]

Jano wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Today, the cards appear again in reverse, with the SB in first place. I
> wonder if this is due to development changes, if there's some way to force
> the default by name instead of index, and if I should report these things
> to the development team, now that we are so close to release. If so, what
> would the best place to do it?
>
> Any ideas?

Hello, Jano. You will have to look in the /etc/rc scripts to see what
processes are started during boot. That is a chore but there must be some
knowlegable one who can tell you which one to change or look at.

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