Paul, thank you so much for those links. The first looks like it may solve my issue so long as I (or other parties really) don't rearrange the hookups. all the best, drew On Tuesday 11 March 2008 13:19:24 Adam Sampson wrote: > Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > The usual ALSA mechanism relies on PCI id and other stuff that, > > IIRC, is not going to distinguish between 3 identical cards. > > If you're using udev, you can distinguish between the cards using the > device path, since that'll include the PCI slot number (which > shouldn't change unless you're hotplugging PCI devices, I assume). > > There's a script to do it for USB devices here: > http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Udev > > I've adapted it to just match regexps against the device path, so you > can use it for PCI devices too. It seems to work for me, but I haven't > tested it thoroughly. (In particular, I'm sitting a few miles away > from the machine I'm testing on, so I haven't actually tried *doing* > anything with the sound devices yet...) > > The script I'm using is here: > http://offog.org/darcs/misccode/alsa-name _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user