Re: Sound starts only sometimes after boot

[Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk>]

On 20 Nov 2008, Javier Barroso wrote:
> Hi Anthony,
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk> wrote:
> ...
> > The modules loaded seem to be the same whether sound works or not. I
> > get:
> >
> > snd_pcm_oss            41760  0
> > snd_mixer_oss          18816  1 snd_pcm_oss
> > snd_ens1371            27328  2
> > snd_usb_audio          91296  0
> 
> I'm not sure if smb_usb_audio is loaded too if you haven't got a usb sound card.
> 
> But, if you have 2 sounds cards (one usb), perhaps alsa is changing
> the order of the cards:
> 
> cat /proc/asound/cards
> 
> I had to make a script to change my default card on my .asoundrc file
> because alsa recognized my usb sound card like first sound card one
> time and like second sound card another times. I know should be a udev
> rule for that but I don't know how write it yet.
> 
> If it is not your case, sorry for the noise.

Thanks for this; yes, you may well be right. I get:

arcadia:~:$ cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [AudioPCI       ]: ENS1371 - Ensoniq AudioPCI
                      Ensoniq AudioPCI ENS1371 at 0xdc00, irq 17
 1 [U0x46d0x8ad    ]: USB-Audio - USB Device 0x46d:0x8ad
                      USB Device 0x46d:0x8ad at usb-0000:00:0f.1-2, full speed


I want to use the first of these. I don't know anything about asound and
I don't have .asoundrc.  Could you kindly post your file here in case I
could use it as a template?


Anthony

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