Re: [LAU] Please help with audio interfaces that keep changing after reboot

From: Peter Nelson <peter@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Mon May 10 2010 - 13:37:41 EEST

On Sun, 2010-05-09 at 23:32 -1000, david wrote:
> Philipp Überbacher wrote:
> > Wow, you USB device really is called default. Quite bad. I must admit
> > that I'm surprised. I'd also try to use hw:default, which hopefully is
> > different from (default) in qjackctl, whatever that may be.
>
> So I just tried typing in "hw:default" for QJackCtl, and it got the USB
> device. In the morning, I'll see what "hw:default" is. Selecting
> "(default)" from QJackCtl's drop down list gives me the Intel audio
> right now.
>
> > Really confusing..
>
> Part of what makes Linux audio so much fun!
>

"default" is ALSA's default "device", the one that implements dmix etc.
on the first sound card found.

"hw:default" will directly use the sound card actually named "default".

-- 
Peter
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