4 Jul
2006
4 Jul
'06
12:57 p.m.
On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 09:05 -0400, Dave Phillips wrote:
Greetings:
I'm preparing a final draft of an article re: ALSA and I started
wondering about whatever happened to modules.conf. In my old RH9 (2.4
kernel) I was able to freely manipulate the ALSA modules (designate for
loading, reorder, set alias, etc) via /etc/modules.conf. Things have
changed a lot in 2.6.x, and /etc/modules.conf is apparently not to be
edited in Ye Olden Way. Is there a similar single file in the 2.6 file
system ? If so, where is it ? On my Debian Etch system I have this file :
/etc/modprobe.d/sound
It looks like the file to change a la the old-time modules.conf, but my
entries have no effect. Is there another file located elsewhere that I
should be editing ? Here's my /etc/modprobe.d/sound :
alias snd-card-0 snd-ice1712
options snd-ice1712 index=0
alias snd-card-1 snd-emu10k1
options snd-emu10k1 index=1
alias snd-card-2 snd-virmidi
options snd-virmidi index=2
AFAICT, every distro does this differenly.
Also, what's the status of a user-friendly ALSA
control and operations
panel that might address such matters as ordering multiple soundcards,
write/edit .asoundrc, start/stop ALSA services, etc. ? Is the ALSA
development group pursuing anything like that ?
No one is working on anything like this.
You can set the default soundcard with gnome-sound-properties - it
creates an .asoundrc that sets the default device.
There should really be no need to reorder sound cards as they can be
addressed by name. It's best to fix the apps that are hardcoded to talk
to the first device.
I'm not sure what you mean by "stop/start ALSA services". ALSA does not
run any daemons and config file changes take place immediately.
Users should really not need to modify .asoundrc. If the default does
not DTRT it's a bug. What use cases do you have in mind?
Lee