On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Ronny Standtke wrote: > Hi all, > > I just wanted to let you know that Takashi Iwai from Suse Germany helped me on > the alsa-devel list to solve the "disappearing soundcard" problem. > > So all I actually had to do was to add the following two lines > to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base: > -------------- > options snd-intel8x0 index=0 > options snd-usb-audio index=-2,-2 > -------------- > > It just took me two months to find out... I still think that it is the job of > the desktop environment to search the configured soundcard at startup instead > of letting poor users change system configuration files as root to hardcode > the soundcard order. Maybe one day Linux can do this as user-friendly as the > competition already does for several years now. Job? Yes, it would be nice if one could have the distribution's setup routines figure out all of the different combinations of sound card and how the user wants them all set up. But not even the competition does that. Note that on my system, I plug in my usb Maudio Transit sound card, and there it is as dsp1 and card 1, while my snd-intel8x0 is, from boot, there as sound card 0 ( or /dev/dsp). No work whatsoever on my part. Now it sounds like you were trying someting trickier, which even Windows does not allow you to. A usb will almost always come later in the chain than a hardware soundcard, on ALL operating systems, because the soundcard is there at bootup and the usb card is plugged in and out. Ie, your demands were unusual and LInux was able to meet them, admittedly with some effort to figure out how. It is also certainly true that Alsa is in desperate need of documentation. Why don't you volunteer? > > Greetings and thank you again > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
