On Sun, 3 Oct 2010, Tom Horsley wrote: > I've got what linux thinks are 3 audio devices. > The built in motherboard, the pci card I added to get > optical output, and a USB microphone in my webcam. > > I had to add this /etc/modprobe.d/usbmic.conf file > to get everything assigned to consistent index > numbers no matter what order the devices get > enumerated: The following question is not directly relevant to my cause. I'm trying to make speakers work. How did you discover what you needed? For me a likely suspect seems to be /etc/modprobe.d/also.conf , but I can't tell what it's pointing at: # ALSA Sound Support # # We want to ensure that snd-seq is always loaded for those who want to # use # the sequencer interface, but we can't do this automatically through # udev # at the moment...so we have this rule (just for the moment). # # Remove the following line if you don't want the sequencer. install snd-pcm /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-pcm && /sbin/modprobe snd-seq In case it helps, here is the result of lsmod Module Size Used by usblp 8702 0 tcp_lp 1739 0 fuse 47907 2 sunrpc 163601 1 p4_clockmod 3011 1 ip6t_REJECT 3310 2 nf_conntrack_ipv6 14223 2 ip6table_filter 1199 1 ip6_tables 9774 1 ip6table_filter ipv6 221726 28 ip6t_REJECT,nf_conntrack_ipv6 uinput 5287 0 snd_hda_codec_atihdmi 2039 1 snd_intel8x0 23080 2 snd_ac97_codec 89423 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_hda_intel 19995 0 ac97_bus 906 1 snd_ac97_codec snd_hda_codec 70968 2 snd_hda_codec_atihdmi,snd_hda_intel snd_hwdep 4860 1 snd_hda_codec snd_seq 42775 0 snd_seq_device 5035 1 snd_seq snd_pcm 62185 4 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec ppdev 6722 0 parport_pc 17645 0 parport 25805 2 ppdev,parport_pc snd_timer 15391 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd 46591 13 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm,snd_timer e100 24989 0 mii 3514 1 e100 iTCO_wdt 8940 0 iTCO_vendor_support 2027 1 iTCO_wdt intel_rng 2228 0 soundcore 4934 1 snd snd_page_alloc 6097 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm i2c_i801 8410 0 microcode 10249 0 radeon 665912 2 ttm 44703 1 radeon drm_kms_helper 21722 1 radeon usb_storage 35004 0 drm 139268 5 radeon,ttm,drm_kms_helper i2c_algo_bit 4117 1 radeon i2c_core 20553 5 i2c_i801,radeon,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit > alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel > options snd-hda-intel index=0 > options and-card-0 index=0 > alias snd-card-1 snd-ca0106 > options snd-ca0106 index=1 > options snd-card-1 index=1 > alias snd-card-2 snd-usb-audio > options snd-usb-audio index=2 > options and-card-2 index=2 > > With the pulseaudio sound dialog there is also > a hardware tab and you can select devices and > mark them not to be used by pulse (which I do > with the optical output card since I want to > dedicate it to alsa output from mplayer). Is that just a gnome thing? I'm running KDE. -- Michael hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "Pessimist: The glass is half empty. Optimist: The glass is half full. Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be." -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines