Re: [linux-audio-user] Is it possible to force a USB MIDI device to use a fixed ALSA client ID?

On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 18:47 +0200, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> Lars Luthman wrote:
> > the keyboard can get a different ALSA client ID every time I turn
> > it on.
>
> The client ID depends on the sound card number. ALSA drivers grab the
> first free sound card number when they're loaded unless told
> otherwise, so the client ID will change if drivers are loaded in a
> different order.
>
> In your /etc/modprobe.conf (or whatever your distribution uses), add
> "index" options to your drivers to force them to always have the same
> ID:
>
> options snd-whatever index=0
> options snd-usb-audio index=1

Thanks! I added "options snd-usb-audio index=1" and ran depmod, and now
it looks like the keyboard gets client ID 72 every time I turn it on.

--ll