Re: No sound from Flash, but other methods work well

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 07/18/2010 08:09 PM, Javier Vasquez wrote:
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> I have an USB audio device as well, one of those cheap ones, :-)  But
> when there's no other sound device in the box, there's a problem with
> them, because some applications do not look for secondary devices,
> they just look for the first one (make sense that if there's no first
> then there's no second).  But debian has its way of deciding things,
> so the alsa team decided it's best to always set the usb devices as
> secondary ones, never as first ones...  So to solve all problems I had
> with usb audio devices, what I did is to comment out the trick debian
> uses...
>
> % grep usb /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
> 23:# Keep snd-usb-audio from beeing loaded as first soundcard
> 24:options snd-usb-audio index=-2
>
> Line 24 of alsa-base.conf makes snd-usb-audio to get second, no matter
> what...  That makes some applications blind to it...
>
> What I did to correct that is to comment out line 24, as follows:
>
> % grep usb /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
> 23:# Keep snd-usb-audio from beeing loaded as first soundcard
> 24:# options snd-usb-audio index=-2
>
> Then I never faced usb audio devices problems again...

I actually did do something similar to that, and for exactly the 
reason you mention.  That was my first hurdle.  Flash is my 2nd.

$ grep usb /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
# Keep snd-usb-audio from beeing loaded as first soundcard
## But I *want* snd-usb-audio to be the first soundcard...
options snd-usb-audio index=0

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