19 Mar
2008
19 Mar
'08
2:35 p.m.
Al Thompson wrote:
> Hi all. I'm new here so I figured I'd introduce myself.
>
Hi.
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>
> Is there a way to prevent the mixer from being made the default (and
> only) audio device if I happen to mistakenly leave it connected? And
> what happened to my PCM devices?
>
In general, yes, but not so much by 'preventing' the mixer from being
the default device as much as making the built in sound card the
default.
This is a bit distro specific but where ever you set up your Alsa
modules you can set which sound card is considered the default. On my
system it looks like this:
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
options snd-intel8x0 index=0
alias snd-card-1 snd-hdsp
options snd-hdsp index=1
I presume that you probably have a driver for the internal device and
maybe USB-audio for the mixer. Just set the USB as 1 and the built in
as 0 and you should be good to go.
Hope this helps,
Mark