On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 10:29 AM, ailo <ailo.at@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> How does pulseaudio do it? How does any program remember the default audio >> card? > > i am not sure that *any* programs can handle this with two identical > cards. ALSA doesn't provide any way to identify <this> instance of a > Foobar-100 rather than <that> version of a Foobar-100. and ALSA > doesn't do it because a lot of hardware doesn't provide it either. > > its normally just the name of the card. I don't know this for sure but I think Windows does that determination based on figuring out which PCI slot a specific card is plugged into? Is there some way to do this in a Linux script that makes sense? - Mark _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
