On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 07:49 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > 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, i dont think he can remove the one he wants to, since it is on-board. > 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. also google for 'alsa multiple sound cards', though i am not sure how much overlap there is between alsa userspace configuration and udev /dev heirarchy configuration. blacklisting may be the easiest solution, add your module to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist . -- Matt Zagrabelny - mzagrabe@d.umn.edu - (218) 726 8844 University of Minnesota Duluth Information Technology Systems & Services PGP key 1024D/84E22DA2 2005-11-07 Fingerprint: 78F9 18B3 EF58 56F5 FC85 C5CA 53E7 887F 84E2 2DA2 He is not a fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. -Jim Elliot
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part