[TriLUG] ALSA and card ordering

[Joel Ebel]

I believe the alsa devices get ordered by the order the modules are 
inserted.  If you change that order such that the sound card is loaded 
first you should be fine.  How you do that, depends on your 
distribution.  I would add the TV card to /etc/hotplug/blacklist so it 
doesn't get loaded automatically, and then just load the module manually 
somewhere after hotplug has done its thing.  Or perhaps add the 
appropriate information to modprobe.conf so they get loaded 
automatically when needed.

Joel

Andrew Perrin wrote:
> Hey gang. I just upgraded my kernel from 2.4.24 to 2.6.8 and in general
> things are working fine. But somehow the order of the two sound cards in
> my machine got switched. That's a problem because the one that's now
> "first" is actually the sound subsystem of my TV-in card, and doesn't have
> any way of playing sound to the speakers. So the system beep, RealPlayer,
> etc. (apps that don't have a specific way of specifying card 1) don't
> work.
> 
> Any ideas on how to tell the system to load the real sound card as card0
> and snd-bt878 as card 1?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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