[LAU] Multiple sound cards

[Mark Knecht]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 10:29 AM, ailo <ailo.at at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> How does pulseaudio do it? How does any program remember the default audio
>> card?
>
> i am not sure that *any* programs can handle this with two identical
> cards. ALSA doesn't provide any way to identify <this> instance of a
> Foobar-100 rather than <that> version of a Foobar-100. and ALSA
> doesn't do it because a lot of hardware doesn't provide it either.
>
> its normally just the name of the card.

I don't know this for sure but I think Windows does that determination
based on figuring out which PCI slot a specific card is plugged into?

Is there some way to do this in a Linux script that makes sense?

- Mark