Re: [LAU] Problem with soundcards setup

From: Martin Wohlleben <martin.wohlleben@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sun Jun 07 2009 - 15:42:37 EEST

Am Samstag, den 06.06.2009, 06:35 -0700 schrieb Justin Smith:
> On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Arve Barsnes<arve.barsnes@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> > Hi all, something has changed in my configuration, and my efforts to
> > try and fix it up has made everything much worse. Please help. I used
> > to have my internal soundcard on hw:0 and my usb card on hw:1. They
> > are now at hw:3 and hw:4 for some reason. I would like the old setting
> > back, so please take a look at my settings and make suggestions, it
> > would be greatly appreciated!
> >
> > my .asoundrc (unchanged since the time it worked)
> >
> > pcm.jackplug {
> > type plug
> > slave { pcm "jack" }
> > }
> >
> > pcm.jack {
> > type jack
> > playback_ports {
> > 0 alsa_pcm:playback_1
> > 1 alsa_pcm:playback_2
> > }
> > capture_ports {
> > 0 alsa_pcm:capture_1
> > 1 alsa_pcm:capture_2
> > }
> > }
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > my /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf (which seemed to be a new file, which was
> > messing up stuff, so I copied my old /etc/modprobe.d/alsa to this one,
> > after adding the very last line, to try and get the order of the
> > soundcards right)
> >
> > # Alsa kernel modules' configuration file.
> >
> > # ALSA portion
> > alias char-major-116 snd
> > # OSS/Free portion
> > alias char-major-14 soundcore
> >
> > # OSS/Free portion - card #1
> > alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
> > alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
> > alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
> > alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
> > alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
> > # OSS/Free portion - card #2
> > alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss
> > alias sound-service-1-1 snd-seq-oss
> > alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss
> > alias sound-service-1-8 snd-seq-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 1.0.16rc1 ---
> > alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
> > alias sound-slot-0 snd-hda-intel
> > alias snd-card-1 snd-usb-audio
> > alias sound-slot-1 snd-usb-audio
> > # --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
> >
> > options snd slots=snd-card-0,snd-card-1
> >
> >
> >
> > I do think I lost one line that specified how many sound cards there
> > were in the system, but that they are now in hw:3 and hw:4 suggests
> > there's something deeper wrong. Any ideas?
> >
> > Kernel 2.6.29.3-rt14 on Gentoo if that matters!
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> >

You can add the index option in your alsa.conf

options snd cards_limit= 2
options snd-hda-intel index=0
options snd-usb-audio index=1

Maybe it helps to check what other cards were found by alsa
cat /proc/asound/cards
and to index them too.

Regards,
Martin

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