Christoph Eckert wrote: > I'm running a Gentoo box and just updated to a vanilla 2.6.14.2 with no > further patches applied. I even updated ALSA to 1.0.10rc1. I'm using > the kernel drivers, no external drivers installed. JACK was taken from > CVS some time ago and is version 0.100.0, tmpdir /dev/shm installed. > > I run an internal AC '97 chip (with modem functionality), a Terratec USB > audio device, a Midisport 8x8, a m-audio Trigger Finger USB-MIDI device > and (occasionally) an Edirol UM-1S. The firmware for the Midisport gets > loaded via hotplug (very cool script BTW, thanks to the author) as well > as snd_usb_audio gets loaded by hotplug. > > Now the issues: > > I.) According to http://alsa.opensrc.org/MultipleCards I tried to set > the cards to a certain order because I'd (mainly) to see the Terratec > card with the same number each time I log in. Unfortunately this > doesn't work. I have included the content of the > file /etc/modules.d/alsa at the end of this mail. The "options snd-xxx index=..." lines look OK. Please check in /sys/module/snd-xxx/parameters/index that the options actually got applied. > II.) When doing an /etc/init.d/alsasound restart, all cards are lost. > cat /proc/asound/cards tell me "no cards". I get back my USB devices as > soon as I replug them thanks to hotplug, but the internal card is lost > until I reload the modules manually *or* reboot the machine. How does the alsasound script look like? I guess it looks for snd-card-x aliases in /etc/modprobe.conf, and your first problem may indicate that this file doesn't exist. > III.) Formerly I did loadthe snd_usb_audio module > in /etc/conf.d/local.start so I could pass some parameters to improve > USB audio latency: > modprobe snd-usb-audio nrpacks=1 > > What is the right place now as the module gets loaded via hotplug? /etc/modules.d/alsa :-) or wherever your distribution wants to have the "options" lines for modules. HTH Clemens
