Re: No sound in some programs after installing ALSA

["xerces8" <xerces8@butn.net>]

From: 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.

Downloading source, building, installing, hoping it is compatible
with the existing setup, is better than editin a couple characters
in the config file ?

You are hacking too much ! Take a break ;-)

Otherwise thanks for all the help.

David