[linux-audio-user] tell ALSA to use secondary card (on USB) instead of primary

[Lee Revell]

On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 13:52 +0200, Karl Hammar wrote:
> cladisch at fastmail.net:
> > Florin Andrei wrote:
> > > I'm pretty sure there has to be a way to configure ALSA to direct all
> > > apps to the second card by default.
> > 
> > Add the following line to your ~/.asoundrc or /etc/asound.conf:
> > 
> > defaults.pcm.card 1
> > 
> > 
> > HTH
> > Clemens
> 
> For some reason, it doesn't work with alsamixer, amixer nor gamix.
> Ok with alsaplayer.

Because it only sets the default PCM, not the default mixer.

Lee