[LAU] Multiple sound cards

[Ken Restivo]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 08:08:41PM -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 7:14 PM, ailo <ailo.at at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 12/16/2010 12:26 AM, ailo wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>> Apart from the aplay -L result at the end I got a lot of this:
> >>>>
> >>>> that's not what we're looking for. it should open ~/.asoundrc
> >>>> if it doesn't show with that command, use
> >>>>
> >>>> strace -e trace=file aplay -L
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> How can I make sure editing ~/.asoundrc has any effect?
> >
> > that is what we were doing. what is the output of:
> >
> > ? ls -l ~/.asoundrc
> 
> also, check /etc/share/alsa/alsa.conf for this block of text, or
> something very much like it:
> 
> 
> @hooks [
> 	{
> 		func load
> 		files [
> 			"/etc/asound.conf"
> 			"~/.asoundrc"
> 		]
> 		errors false
> 	}
> ]
> 
> this is how ~/.asoundrc is loaded.

Hmm. There is no such file as /etc/share/alsa/alsa.conf. I think you mean /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf, which does indeed have this block.

-ken