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.