[LAU] New User

[Mark Knecht]

> Al Thompson wrote:
>  > Hi all.  I'm new here so I figured I'd introduce myself.
>  >

Hi.

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>  >
>  > Is there a way to prevent the mixer from being made the default (and
>  > only) audio device if I happen to mistakenly leave it connected?  And
>  > what happened to my PCM devices?
>  >

In general, yes, but not so much by 'preventing' the mixer from being
the default device as much as making the built in sound card the
default.

This is a bit distro specific but where ever you set up your Alsa
modules you can set which sound card is considered the default. On my
system it looks like this:

alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
options snd-intel8x0 index=0
alias snd-card-1 snd-hdsp
options snd-hdsp index=1

I presume that you probably have a driver for the internal device and
maybe USB-audio for the mixer. Just set the USB as 1 and the built in
as 0 and you should be good to go.

Hope this helps,
Mark