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ursusca
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 Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 9:46 pm Post subject: [SOLVED] Set default sound card |
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Hello there!
I have ASUS M4A78-E motherboard. I've disabled Onboard sound card (VIA VT1708S) and installed Audigy sound card (c-media sb 8738 5.1 channel (CMI8738/PCI-6ch-LX)). My system detects now two audio devices.
| Code: | $lspci
01:05.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RS780 Azalia controller
04:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs CA0106 Soundblaster |
ATI HDMI (part of the gpu) and my Audigy sound card. ATI HDMI is a dafault sound card now
| Code: | cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [HDMI ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI HDMI
HDA ATI HDMI at 0xfbdfc000 irq 19
1 [CA0106 ]: CA0106 - CA0106
Audigy SE [SB0570] at 0xec00 irq 20 |
I've disabled HDA ATI HDMI in Gnome sound preference. How can I change default sound card on Audigy?
Thanks,
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ferreirafm
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| Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 11:43 pm Post subject: |
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Hi ursusca,
emerge alsa-utils and run alsaconf. Its is a simple script which tries to detect the sound cards on your system and writes a suitable configuration file. |
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| Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 11:48 pm Post subject: |
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| No completely sure, but putting 'defaults.pcm.card 1' in /etc/asound.conf may work. |
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| Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 12:02 am Post subject: |
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ursusca,
I suppose you have compiled your sound drivers built-in. End also disabled your on-board sound card in the BIO. If yes, alsaconf should work in order. That's what I did.
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ursusca
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| Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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Hello Guys,
Thank you both for attention to my question.
| ferreirafm wrote: | Hi ursusca,
emerge alsa-utils and run alsaconf. Its is a simple script which tries to detect the sound cards on your system and writes a suitable configuration file. |
I did and it didn't help 
| VoidMage wrote: | | No completely sure, but putting 'defaults.pcm.card 1' in /etc/asound.conf may work. |
There isn't /etc/asound.conf file in my box.
| Code: | ls -la /etc | grep asound
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12626 2010-03-15 21:16 asound.state |
Should I create it?
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| Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 10:36 am Post subject: |
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ursusca.
| ursusca wrote: | | Should I create it? |
I think it isn't gonna help much. The ausasound.state file just stores the final setup/config of mixer - things like volume of CD, microphone and so on.
Did test your sound card already? I mean, in another computer. Double check it. |
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| Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 11:55 am Post subject: |
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| ferreirafm wrote: | ursusca.
| ursusca wrote: | | Should I create it? |
I think it isn't gonna help much. The ausasound.state file just stores the final setup/config of mixer - things like volume of CD, microphone and so on.
Did test your sound card already? I mean, in another computer. Double check it. |
Can you post the output of
please?
From that, I can see which module is connected to which card. Then you can create a kernel parameter that will change the behaviour. You can chose two options:
- move the second card to the first position and the first card to the second position (the card that is found first is the default card)
- disable the first card
Up to you which one you want  |
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ursusca
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| Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Rexilion wrote: |
Can you post the output of
please?
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Hello,
sure
| Code: | 01:05.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RS780 Azalia controller
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc RS780 Azalia controller
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
Memory at fbdfc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
04:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs CA0106 Soundblaster
Subsystem: Creative Labs SB0570 [SB Audigy SE]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 20
I/O ports at ec00 [size=32]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: CA0106
Kernel modules: snd-ca0106
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| Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 6:02 pm Post subject: |
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Open grub.conf and try this:
append the following to the kernel line:
| Code: | | snd-ca0106.index=0 snd-hda-intel.index=1 |
Does it work? This switches around the cards. |
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ursusca
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| Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Rexilion wrote: | Open grub.conf and try this:
append the following to the kernel line:
| Code: | | snd-ca0106.index=0 snd-hda-intel.index=1 |
Does it work? This switches around the cards. |
Yes. It does!  Thank you! Are there other ways to set default sound card?
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| Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 10:01 pm Post subject: |
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| ursusca wrote: |
Are there other ways to set default sound card? |
Yes by using pulseaudio, even if most people do not like it. |
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| Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 10:55 pm Post subject: |
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Actually, by using kernel parameters, you haven't changed the default alsa card settings,
just changed the order kernel enumerates them, so '0' is the one you want.
I must stress, that my previous post was just a guess, but reading a bit of alsa-lib docs,
that seems to be the relevant setting. |
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furanku
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| Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 9:03 am Post subject: |
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| ursusca wrote: | | Are there other ways to set default sound card? |
Some sound servers and applications allow it to set a default device on an userland/application level. But even then it is reasonable to bring the soundcards in the desired order on the kernel level: This may save you some configuration as most applications will use the first sound device offerd by the kernel as default.
Sorting the sound devices on the kernel level is basically what you already did with the kernel command line you wrote into the grub configuration. This works, but it's quite inelegant. The kernel commandline should be used for more basic things which have to be specified at boot time (e.g. things whithout your system does not boot at all). Parameters given to less elementary kernel modules, like sound drivers, are better given in the module configuration file. Defining them there you can easily load and unload these drivers in running system and they still get the right options to keep them in order. Hey, we're on Linux, not on Windows, so you don't need to reboot to reorder your sound devices
The module configuration changed from baselayout version 1 to version 2, so could you please give the output of
| Code: | | # emerge -p baselayout |
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ursusca
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| Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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Hello!
Thank all of you!
| furanku wrote: | ..
The module configuration changed from baselayout version 1 to version 2, so could you please give the output of
| Code: | | # emerge -p baselayout |
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| Code: | # emerge -p baselayout
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.13 |
| jcTux wrote: | | Yes by using pulseaudio, even if most people do not like it. |
I like PA and I use it.
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furanku
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| Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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OK, I'm using baselayout version 2 so if I remember correctly, add these two lines
| Code: | alias snd-card-0 snd-ca0106
options snd-ca0106 index=0
alias snd-card-1 snd-hda-intel
options snd-hda-intel index=1
options snd cards_limit=2
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to /etc/modules.d/alsa and then run
After that you can remove the corresponding entries from the grub configuration. With the next boot the moules should get loaded in the right order. Remember that this only works if you build your sound drivers as loadable modules (which is more flexible anway). If you build them statically into the kernel, stick with the method definig the order in the grub kernel options line (as you do now). |
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ursusca
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| Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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| furanku wrote: | OK, I'm using baselayout version 2 so if I remember correctly, add these two lines
| Code: | alias snd-card-0 snd-ca0106
options snd-ca0106 index=0
alias snd-card-1 snd-hda-intel
options snd-hda-intel index=1
options snd cards_limit=2
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to /etc/modules.d/alsa and then run
After that you can remove the corresponding entries from the grub configuration. With the next boot the moules should get loaded in the right order. Remember that this only works if you build your sound drivers as loadable modules (which is more flexible anway). If you build them statically into the kernel, stick with the method definig the order in the grub kernel options line (as you do now). |
Hello,
There isn't /etc/modules.d/alsa file in my system
| Code: | # find / -name 'alsa'
/usr/share/alsa
/usr/share/sounds/alsa
/usr/src/linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r10/Documentation/sound/alsa
/usr/include/alsa
/var/lib/alsa
/var/tmp/portage/media-plugins/gst-plugins-cdparanoia-0.10.25/work/gst-plugins-base-0.10.25/ext/alsa
/etc/alsa
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And there isn't /etc/modules.d/ directory either
| Code: | # ls -la /etc | grep modules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 698 2010-03-15 17:20 ggz.modules
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-03-16 23:13 modules.autoload.d
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You probably are talking about /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf file
| Code: | # cat alsa.conf
# Alsa kernel modules' configuration file.
# ALSA portion
# OSS/Free portion
##
## IMPORTANT:
## You need to customise this section for your specific sound card(s)
## and then run `update-modules' command.
## Read alsa-driver's INSTALL file in /usr/share/doc for more info.
##
## ALSA portion
## alias snd-card-0 snd-interwave
## alias snd-card-1 snd-ens1371
## OSS/Free portion
## alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
## alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1
##
# OSS/Free portion - card #1
## OSS/Free portion - card #2
## alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss
## alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss
## alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss
alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss
# Set this to the correct number of cards.
# --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
# --- ALSACONF version 1.0.21 ---
alias snd-card-0 snd-ca0106
alias sound-slot-0 snd-ca0106
# --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
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This file was generated by alsaconf utility
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| Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 8:22 pm Post subject: |
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Hi,
Thank you but your link is not working ...
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| Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 8:43 pm Post subject: |
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| ursusca wrote: |
Hi,
Thank you but your link is not working ... |
hm, just opened it ok;)
it's link to the directory which contains ebuild files.it could not be used directly.
You need to copy this directory to your local overlay.
Another way around is to download my overlay using layman .use command:
layman -o http://bt-overlay.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/layman.xml -f -a bt-overlay
and then install the application from download overlay
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| Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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| OK, as I said, I migrated to baselayout version 2 some time ago, so I'm not sure about newer developments in baslayout version 1. I would guess that /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf is the correct file and would give it a try, as in the worst case your sound would be messed up again, and you can easily revert the changes -- but maybe someone with a running baselayout version 1 system should confirm the changes suggested by me. |
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ursusca
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| Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 9:05 pm Post subject: |
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Hello!
A big thanks to all of you!!!
I've added this lines to my /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf file
| Code: | options snd-ca0106 index=0
alias snd-card-1 snd-hda-intel
options snd-hda-intel index=1
options snd cards_limit=2
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| Code: | # cat /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf
# Alsa kernel modules' configuration file.
# ALSA portion
# OSS/Free portion
##
## IMPORTANT:
## You need to customise this section for your specific sound card(s)
## and then run `update-modules' command.
## Read alsa-driver's INSTALL file in /usr/share/doc for more info.
##
## ALSA portion
## alias snd-card-0 snd-interwave
## alias snd-card-1 snd-ens1371
## OSS/Free portion
## alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
## alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1
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# OSS/Free portion - card #1
## OSS/Free portion - card #2
## alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss
## alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss
## alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss
alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss
# Set this to the correct number of cards.
# --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
# --- ALSACONF version 1.0.21 ---
alias snd-card-0 snd-ca0106
alias sound-slot-0 snd-ca0106
# --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
#set default sound card
options snd-ca0106 index=0
alias snd-card-1 snd-hda-intel
options snd-hda-intel index=1
options snd cards_limit=2
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| furanku wrote: | | OK, as I said, I migrated to baselayout version 2 some time ago, so I'm not sure about newer developments in baslayout version 1. I would guess that /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf is the correct file and would give it a try, as in the worst case your sound would be messed up again, and you can easily revert the changes -- but maybe someone with a running baselayout version 1 system should confirm the changes suggested by me. |
Can you give me an example of baselayout 2?
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| Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 10:04 pm Post subject: |
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I have the corresponding lines in baselayout version 2 in /etc/conf.d/modules in a different syntax (sound cards for my setup)
| Code: | modules_2_6="${modules_2_6} snd_intel8x0"
module_snd_intel8x0_args_2_6="index=0"
modules_2_6="${modules_2_6} snd_cmipci"
module_snd_cmipci_args_2_6="mpu_port=0x330 fm_port=0x388 index=1"
modules_2_6="${modules_2_6} cx88_alsa"
module_cx88_alsa_args_2_6="index=2"
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| Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 7:31 am Post subject: |
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| furanku wrote: | I have the corresponding lines in baselayout version 2 in /etc/conf.d/modules in a different syntax (sound cards for my setup)
| Code: | modules_2_6="${modules_2_6} snd_intel8x0"
module_snd_intel8x0_args_2_6="index=0"
modules_2_6="${modules_2_6} snd_cmipci"
module_snd_cmipci_args_2_6="mpu_port=0x330 fm_port=0x388 index=1"
modules_2_6="${modules_2_6} cx88_alsa"
module_cx88_alsa_args_2_6="index=2"
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I have found that for the unlucky people like me that is having Adobe-Flash that don't have sound in there own web browser to also to look at this carefully.
Thank you all, each and everyone that have posted there own example for the way to solved this sound card issue. With this post, I'm sure would have hunted the internet for (if lucky) a few more days trying to solved my sound problem with Adobe-Flash not having sound in my web browser. |
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| Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2010 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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| despui wrote: | I have found that for the unlucky people like me that is having Adobe-Flash that don't have sound in there own web browser to also to look at this carefully.
Thank you all, each and everyone that have posted there own example for the way to solved this sound card issue. With this post, I'm sure would have hunted the internet for (if lucky) a few more days trying to solved my sound problem with Adobe-Flash not having sound in my web browser. |
Hi
My suggestion is to try to uninstall everything related to OSS.
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