HOWTO switch sound cards order?

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someone12345 · Post by **someone12345** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 4:18 pm

Hi!

I've two sound cards, emu10k1 and intel8x0 and I want the first alsa device to be inte8x0 instead of emu10k1. How can I do this?

Thanks

truc · Post by **truc** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 5:32 pm

I think you can change the card number in /etc/modules.d/alsa , change

alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
alias snd-card-1 snd-emu10k1

to something like

alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
alias snd-card-1 snd-intel8x0

I already did this, may be you have other changes to do in that file but I think that's all (I already did something like that)

someone12345 · Post by **someone12345** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 5:58 pm

Well, I don't have this file (no more). Just for fun I ran alsacfg (which I yet never did) and it screwed up everything. So I unnervedly just deleted the file and now everything works fine

evilben · Post by **evilben** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 3:32 pm

Glad to hear it worked--in the past (it may have been fixed, dunno), I've had to also specify the modules in the correct order in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 for things to work right at boot.

MmmmJoel · Post by **MmmmJoel** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 7:12 pm

If you have the sound card modules built into the kernel, you can have the kernel assign devices in a different order like this in your grub.conf:

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kernel /bzImage-2.6.15 root=/dev/hda3 snd-emu10k1.index=0 snd-intel8x0.index=1

This way, ALSA, OSS, and whatever other sound daemon will order the cards in the same way.