[LAU] audio card discovery order, debian etch, 2.6.20, udev

[Robin Gareus]

James Cameron wrote:
> G'day,
> 
> This is probably a dumb question, but I haven't found an answer yet
> because it is relatively hard to google it.


there has been earlier discussion on this list about that topic.
http://linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2007-March/043908.html


> I've two audio devices, and once in every ten or so boots the discovery
> order is reversed, with the SB Live 5.1 card detected in position 1
> instead of position 0.
> 
> # cat /proc/asound/cards
>  0 [Live           ]: EMU10K1 - SB Live 5.1
>                       SB Live 5.1 (rev.7, serial:0x80641102) at 0xe800, irq 17
>  1 [SI7012         ]: ICH - SiS SI7012
>                       SiS SI7012 with ALC655 at 0xe000, irq 16
> # lspci | vi
> 00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Sound Controller (rev a0)
> 00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07)
> # lsmod | vi
> snd_intel8x0
> snd_emu10k1
> 
> What I have tried is the following fragment in /etc/modules:
> 
> alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1


try sth. like

options snd-emu10k1 index=0



> Yet still the problem happens.
> 
> Kernel: 2.6.20.7
> udev: 0.103-2
> Distribution: Debian GNU/Linux Etch 4.0
> 
> Alternate solution would be a way to specify to xmms and xine what Alsa
> device to use, by identity rather than position.
>