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From: Michael Schreckenbauer <grimlog@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] udev 103, alsa dual soundcard problem
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:49:31
Message-Id: 200611281544.58183.grimlog@gmx.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] udev 103, alsa dual soundcard problem by Dave Jones
1 Hi,
2
3 Am Montag, 27. November 2006 22:55 schrieb Dave Jones:
4 > Yesterday I upgraded udev to 103, but have hit some problems with alsa
5 > configuration of multiple sound cards.
6 > I have an 'on board' Intel 8x0 sound card which I use for VoIP
7 > telephony, and a PCI Creative Audigy which I use to play music.
8 > The Audigy is configured to alsa as sound card 0, while the Intel card
9 > is sound card 1. This set up has worked perfectly for years.
10 > The udev 103 upgrade recommends removing coldplug. However, the alsa
11 > initialisation script (alsasound) depend on both coldplug and hotplug.
12 > If I remove coldplug from the boot runlevel alsasound fails, leaving
13 > only the Intel sound card initialised.
14 > Even worse is that udev seems to discover the sound cards in the reverse
15 > order to coldplug. My Audigy card becomes /dev/dsp1 and the Intel card
16 > is /dev/dsp0. Unfortunately, Audacious, my music player of choice,
17 > doesn't seem to offer any choice of which dsp to use.
18 > To put it mildly, this is a major pain; I don't want to listen to music
19 > played through the VoIP headset connected to the Intel card.
20 > Is there any way I can persuade udev to generate the /dev entries for my
21 > sound cards in a particular order, so that Audacious can continue to
22 > work with /dev/dsp0?
23 > Thanks in advance for any help or advice you may be able to give.
24
25 I had this problem some time ago. The solution was to add
26
27 options snd-emu10k1 index=0
28 options snd-intel8x0 index=1
29
30 to /etc/modules.d/alsa
31
32 run modules-update and restart alsa (or reboot) after that.
33
34 > Cheers, Dave
35
36 Regards,
37 Michael
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Re: [gentoo-user] udev 103, alsa dual soundcard problem [solved] Dave Jones <Dave.Jones@××××××.nl>