[ale] second sound card

[James Sumners]

It depends on how your software is requesting the soundcard. If the
software you are using is trying to play through "hw:0,0" instead of
"SBLive", then whatever "hw:0,0" happens to be that time will get the
audio. So the simplest solution is to make sure your audio software is
using the soundcard names and not the soundcard hardware ids. The link
you found says this, but not very well.

Alternatively, you can write some UDEV rules[1] to load the respective
drivers in the same order every boot.

[1] -- http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 11:42 AM, John G. Heim <jheim at math.wisc.edu> wrote:
> I recently put a second sound card in my PC running debian lenny. The
> problem is that each time I reboot, it seems to randomly choose whichcard is
> first and which is second.  I just want the card built into the motherboard
> to be the #1 sound card.
>
> I googled for this problem and all I find are pages that give an incredibly
> complicated procedure for fixing this. Here's an example:
> http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/MultipleCards
>
> Is it really that difficult?



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