[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#505089: alsa-utils: "asoundconf set-default-card" does not work

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Lionel Elie Mamane [081109 21:20 +0100]
> On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 08:58:13PM +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> > * Lionel Elie Mamane [081109 15:10 +0100]
> >> On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 02:35:26PM +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> 
> >>> asoundconf is a Debian utility. Is that needed nowadays? I don't
> >>> know an usefull application right now.
> 
> >> Well, a useful application is to set the default sound card on
> >> machines that have several (and where the default default, card number
> >> 0, varies from reboot to reboot).
> 
> > /usr/share/doc/alsa-base/README:Debian.gz describes how to set up
> > more than 1 soundcard and how to set the default one.
> 
> I don't see where it does, at least in the case where /dev is managed
> by udev; there is a section called "loading modules" that say "ALSA
> has a special built-in module autoloading system. (...)  it is useless
> if your /dev directory is managed by udev (...)" and then goes on to
> explain how, when using this system, one controls which driver takes
> which card number slot, which allows to control which one is card 0,
> which is the default default.
> 
> I don't see where it explains how an udev+hotplug-module-autoload
> setup would control which card is the default. The word "default" does
> not appear in the file, except for the string "/etc/default/alsa", in
> the section "reloading modules across APM suspend-and-resum".

snd-card-0 is the deafult one.

Elimar

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