[LAU] Please help with audio interfaces that keep changing after reboot

[Arnold Krille]

On Saturday 08 May 2010 19:09:27 Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> While you can force the order with the proper index=xx incantations in
> modprobe.d/ files, that will fail if the computer is booted with a usb
> sound card attached.

What? This works here for the last three years, was is all just a dream?

Of course the solution is to 'reserve' the higher indices for the usb-audio 
stuff...

> The proper fix is to not use the index (a number) when addressing the
> card but use the name of the card. That will never change across
> reboots. So, instead of "hw:0" use "hw:NAME" where NAME is what is shown
> between square brackets in the output of cat /proc/asound/cards

The you only have to face apps that don't allow the selection of the soundcard 
and apps that don't handle spaces in device-names.

Arnold
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