On 26/06/2012 16:25, Danni Coy wrote:

Thanks looks like I need to look at what it would take to have the gui front end (Cadence) behave this way by default

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 10:31 PM, Jari Suominen <jari.ak.suominen@gmail.com> wrote:

http://jackaudio.org/device_naming

2012/6/26 Danni Coy <danni.coy@gmail.com>:

> I have only been using jackd with the alsa back end for a short amount of
> time (been a ffado user for many years). I am also dealing with a friends
> cheap laptop which is having issues; basically the order of the alsa devices
> is changing with every boot which means I have to configure jack every time
> I want to use it.
>
> Is there any way to get jack to remember the description of the device
> rather than the number and search for that description on startup (then use
> the device number if that fails). This would seem to me like a much saner
> way of doing things to me.
>
>

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Hi Danni,

Another approach is to force the ALSA (or actually the kernel) to assign persistent indexes to your cards. This is done through modprobe options. See the post here (in French).
Basically, you edit (and/or create) /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf to look like this:

options snd-usb-audio index=0 # this ensures that your usb card comes in first
options snd-hda-intel index=1 # if you have an intel card...

You can list all the modules which are used by sound devices on your computer by running " sudo lsmod | grep snd" this into a terminal. You can set the index number for all of them, and then Jack should find them always in the same place. This works even for software were you only have a dropdown list with card index numbers (where method in http://jackaudio.org/device_naming does not work).

If you have several usb cards, they will all use snd-usb-audio, but you can still preset their indexes by specifying vendor/product numbers... This is explained in detail in the post mentioned above. Please tell me if you need an English translation.

After editing /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf, make sure you either rmmod then modprobe the corresponding modules, or reboot.

Good luck,
Victor