Re: No sound in some programs after installing ALSA

[Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk>]

On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 10:00:22 +0100, xerces8 wrote:
> First, it seems the default ALSA device was set wrong.
[...]
> $ cat /proc/asound/cards
> 0 [Bt878          ]: Bt87x - Brooktree Bt878
>                      Brooktree Bt878 at 0xe3815000, irq 169
> 1 [V8235          ]: VIA8233 - VIA 8235
>                      VIA 8235 at 0xd800, irq 201


Here is the problem.  The VIA device should be given index 0 so
that it becomes the default output device for programs that
send output to sound card #0 by default.

There are various ways to fix this problem, but the best one is
probably to install an alsa-modules package for your kernel
built from alsa-source using make-kpkg.  This will give you an
ALSA system wherein the snd-bt87x driver won't grab index 0.

-- 
Thomas Hood