[LAU] Multiple sound cards

[ailo]

On 12/16/2010 04:33 PM, Paul Davis 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.

Well, how about remembering the pci-slot for pci cards and doing 
something based on that?

And doesn't usb class compliant cards have a way to be uniquely 
identified? (I seem to remember something about that)

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ailo