On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 17:16 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Sunday 10 February 2008 06:58, Tim wrote:
> > On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 18:18 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
> > > Why any sane kernel startup sequence would initialize any
> > > removable devices before any fixed devices is a separate
> > > question :-).
> >
> > I can imagine one reason: The thought that an "added on" device might
> > be to replace a built-in device that you can't remove.
> >
> > However, if I'm asked to configure what is my default sound card (as
> > during the first-boot sequence), I expect that default to stay no matter
> > what else is added.
>
> Hi Tim. The way I've always understood this, regarding USB devices that use
> snd-usb-audio, is that because the USB comes up early in the boot process,
> anything that resembles an audio device (like my usb midi keyboard), gets set
> as card0. If your actual soundcard is aliased as card0, with the options line
> showing "index=0", it is unlikely to show up in /proc/asound/cards, as
> snd-usb-audio has already grabbed card0. Saying that though, you will
> probably still see that the modules have been loaded for your actual
> soundcard in /sbin/lsmod | grep snd, but because the soundcard isn't
> in /proc/asound/cards, it won't work.
>
> The fix I've had to use since FC1, and on other distro's too, is to set alias,
> and options lines in /etc/modprobe.conf for snd-usb-audio, as below.
>
> alias eth0 8139too
> alias scsi_hostadapter libata
> alias scsi_hostadapter1 pata_via
> alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
> options snd-card-0 index=0
> options snd-emu10k1 index=0
>
> alias snd-card-1 snd-usb-audio
> options snd-usb-audio index=1
>
> options snd-bt87x index=2
>
> options bttv automute=0
> options tuner port2=0 pal=I
>
> install pcspkr /bin/true
>
> The module snd-bt87x above, is another notorious one, along with some modem
> modules, that like to grab card0, before anything else can. It's the sound
> capture module for my TV card, and some distro's have default options lines
> for these problematic modules, and set them as "index=2", thus stopping them
> grabbing card0.
>
> If you have more than one audio device on the USB, it get's a little more
> complex, and you have to specify them by their PID's (product id's), and
> VID's (vendor id's). So for example you could have your webcam, and usb midi
> keyboard always taking the same position. I'll have to look for the exact
> details on this, as they were on the alsa-user list.
>
> Just some Sunday afternoon (Northern France) passing the time stuff.
>
> Nigel.
>
As I posted earlier in the discussion thread, I have:
[root@prez doc]# ls /proc/asound/
card0 cards devices hwdep Intel modules oss pcm seq timers version
[root@prez doc]# ls /proc/asound/card0
codec#0 codec#1 id oss_mixer pcm0c pcm0p pcm1p
[root@prez doc]# ls -l /proc/asound/Intel
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 2008-02-10 12:42 /proc/asound/Intel -> card0
[root@prez doc]# cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
HDA Intel at 0xdfffc000 irq 21
Lines in /etc/modprobe.conf:
options snd cards_limit=8
options snd-card-0 index=0
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
options snd-hda-intel index=0
alias snd-card-7 snd-usb-audio
options snd-usb-audio index=7
When I run aplay to "list all soundcards and digital audio devices:"
[root@prez doc]# aplay -l
aplay: device_list:205: no soundcards found...
In the system-config-soundcard applet:
Vendor: Intel Corp.
Model: 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Def. Audio Controller
Module: snd-hda-intel
There is a sound card, the VLC media player works just fine, flash audio
in Firefox doesn't, CD Player doesn't, obviously aplay doesn't, and the
system-config-soundcard sees my audio device but when I click on "play"
I don't hear anything. I can copy a ".au" (if I remember correctly)
audio file directly to /dev/audio and I hear it.
Any ideas on what to try next would be welcome! I've already tried
"model=" modprobe options that I see could be legal (laptop, dell-m42,
dell-3stack, etc.).
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