Here's the lspci output: 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8385 [K8T800 AGP] Host Bridge (rev 01) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T800/K8T890 South] 00:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 08) 00:0d.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder (rev 05) 00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80) 00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) 00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) 00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) 00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) 00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86) 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South] 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60) 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78) 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600] (rev a2) On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 22:11 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Tue, 03.11.09 23:06, Valmantas Palik?a (walmis at gmail.com) wrote: > > > Since upgrading to ubuntu 9.10 devices in pavucontrol and gnome sound > > settings are listed as "Internal Audio Analog Stereo". I have two sound > > cards on my pc and both of them are listed with the same name. > > Previously they were listed with actual card names like "VIA 8237", so > > now it's kind of unclear which card should be used when moving streams > > for example. > > > > Here's a fragment from pactl list > > > > Card #1 > > Name: alsa_card.pci-0000_00_11.5 > > Driver: module-alsa-card.c > > Owner Module: 5 > > Properties: > > alsa.card = "1" > > alsa.card_name = "VIA 8237" > > Hmm, that is surprising. How come you have two cards on PCI bus 0? > Could you provide your lspci output? > > Currently we use the "Internal sound card" name for all PCI cards > that are on PCU bus #0, which normally should be internal bus of the > chipset. In your case this seems be an invalid assumption? > > The name is assigned indirectly, based on the SOUND_FORM_FACTOR udev > property, which is set in /lib/udev/rules.d/78-sound-card.rules. You > should be able to drop that special label by commenting a rule in > that file. > > Ideally however I'd like to see this fixed properly, i.e. I am > wondering if there is some way so that we can safely identify internal > sound cards even for setups like yours. > > Lennart >