On 12/14/2010 12:11 PM, Robin Gareus wrote: > On 12/14/2010 10:57 AM, ailo wrote: >> ...or to load devices into specific alsa-slots (hw:0, hw:1...) >> >> Does someone have a nice method to do one of these? >> >> Since I knew of no other method, I tried loading the cards into specific >> slots, according to this method found at planetccrma's home page: >> >> alias snd-card-0 snd-CARD_0 >> options snd-card-0 index=0 >> options snd-CARD_0 index=0 >> alias snd-card-1 snd-CARD_1 >> options snd-card-1 index=1 >> options snd-CARD_1 index=1 >> ... >> alias snd-card-N snd-CARD_N >> options snd-card-N index=N >> options snd-CARD_N index=N >> >> I have two m-audio delta devices and I never found a good way to >> configure alsa so they would load in a specific order. There was the >> problem of naming, since both cards have the same name. >> >> I think I would prefer the pulseaudio method, which remembers the card >> itself, not the alsa slot (I don't know anything about that, to be honest). >> >> Other things to consider is: >> More than 5 devices will be used, some of them usb midi (usb midi >> devices also appear in alsa sound slots). >> Two m-audio delta cards for audio input (8 + 4 inputs), and at least the >> sound cards need to always load in the same order with jack. >> >> Is it possible to get jack/alsa to remember the sound cards after reboot? >> > > This has been discussed a couple of times on this list, search the > list-archive for details. > > The idea is to refer to audio interfaces by name or device-id rather > than numeric ID. > cat /proc/asound/cards > gives you a list. - use the names between the square brackets > > e.g. > jackd -R -P70 -t1000 -dalsa -d 'hw:Intel' -r48000 -p1024 -n2 > > HTH, > robin OOPS: I've just realized that two of your devices are identical. I don't think the name will help in that case. IIRC there's away to use a UID or BUS like /dev/snd/by-path/.. but I don't remember the details just now. best, robin _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
