On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 04:45:16PM +0800, Richard wrote: > Hi > > A while ago i had also a pci network card in my pc which has an asus > motherboard with onboard lan and sound, from VIA ... and then i always > had the problem that interfaces eth0 and eth1 switched over and over > again that i became very tired and just removed the NIC. > > Now i have the same problem with sound. I also have an Yamaha sound > card which i rather use then the via on board chip, but when i use > the Yamaha card and boot the pc alsa has configured the via chip, when > i then connect that via-output to my audio set and reboot alsa wants > to use the Yamaha card. Very trouble some. > > Why does this happen? ... I am sure not to be the only one who had the > switching ethx interfaces but i do not understand why that happened. > And what is now wrong with my 'sid box' that it always wants to use > the card which is not connected to my audio-amplifier? > > thanks for your thoughts > depends on what your real purposes are. If you don't want or need two sound cards, then 1) whay do you have 2, and 2) you can blacklist the appropriate modules in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist If you want two sound cards then you need to look into 'writing udev rules' (google that phrase, its in the top couple hits) to learn how to customise the rules so that your cards are always named the same thing. and read the archives of this list (probably 2 months ago) for a couple threads on running multiple sound cards. A
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