Haha! Chris Brannon, you rock! Mission accomplished I now have in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf the USB sound card device ordering that makes the trick you suggested work like a charm: ALSA_CARD=Headset linphonec; linphonec brings up the SIP phone and works as expected. I think this will seriously do until the real thing comes along! <satisfied grin> Thanks again, Chris! Janina Janina Sajka writes: > Chris: > > You've put me on the trail of docs I've looked for and failed to find > forever. > > I'm now looking at: > http://alsa.opensrc.org/MultipleCards > > > If I'm reading this correctly, I should be able to get the results I > need by specifying a vendor and product id to order my two usb cards > like I want them ordered. > > Very cool. Hope it works! > > Janina > > > Chris Brannon writes: > > Janina Sajka <janina@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > > It was a great suggestion, Chris. Unfortunately, it seems there's yet > > > another bug in how alsa handles usb devices. > > > > > > I have 2 usb devices. No matter how I specify things, the card that gets > > > invoked is the first of those two. > > > > Oh interesting. So it looks like there's a name clash. > > Last time I dealt with multiple USB audio devices, they had unique > > human-friendly IDs by default. My Logitech USB headset was called > > Headset, and my FM transmitter was called RocketFM. > > Apparently I was just lucky. > > > > Not sure how much you know about alsa, so I'll also mention that > > you can see the human friendly IDs by looking for the symlinks in > > /proc/asound. They're also listed in the output of aplay -l, but it's > > sort of non-intuitive what they are. > > > > > Now, if I were really clever, I suppose I'd know how to write udev rules > > > to insure that the Sennheiser gets a lower card ID than the C-Media > > > device. > > > > Well if you send me the output of lsusb, I can probably write some udev rules > > for you. Or alternatively have a look at http://alsa.opensrc.org/Udev for a > > starting point. > > > > -- Chris > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 > sip:janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Email: janina@xxxxxxxxxxx > > Linux Foundation Fellow > Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org > > The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) > Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Email: janina@xxxxxxxxxxx Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
