Re: sound card ordering

[Keith Barrett <lists@barrettpianos.co.uk>]

On 20/08/2019 21:47, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Keith Barrett, le lun. 19 août 2019 15:55:01 +0100, a ecrit:
> > On 18/08/2019 21:08, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > > Keith Barrett, le dim. 18 août 2019 20:30:50 +0100, a ecrit:
> > > > Interesting, I have not modified /etc/default/espeakup but it does not seem
> > > > to specify a card:
> > > >
> > > > ALSA_CARD=""
> > >
> > > Oh? were you installing with speakup enabled during installation?
> >
> > Yes I was
>
> Uh, that's odd then. Was the VOICE variable also not set?
Yes,
VOICE=en


> > unless it was because the installer only detected one of the cards?
>
> No, in my tests even in that case it would write the ID.
>
> > > That's where specifying either MID or DGX instead of 0/1 allows to avoid
> > > relying on the ordering.
> > OK, thank you, so do I just need to specify in /etc/default/espeakup
>
> Yes, that's it!
Sorry for the noise but I have probably been going about this in the 
wrong way.
So I have now specified MID in /etc/default/espeakup and that does cause 
espeakup to start with speech each time the system boots.
However, the card ordering is still very random which means that 
although espeakup is always working, if the cards load so that MID is 
not 0, I get no other system sounds and orca does not work in the gui.

So, I suppose what I should be trying to achieve is to cause the sound 
cards to retain their correct numbering so that all sound works 
following a reboot.


> Samuel