[Thinlinc-technical] multiple and/or non-default sound card in terminal

[Pierre Ossman]

On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:59:33 +0000
David Edmondson <dme at dme.org> wrote:

> 
> Debian includes the following in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf:
> 
> # Keep snd-usb-audio from beeing loaded as first soundcard
> options snd-usb-audio index=-2
> 
> If I remove this, rmmod snd-usb-audio, modprobe snd-usb-audio then the
> USB card appears as device 0. Restarting the thinlinc client allows the
> thinlinc server to see it now, and everything works well.
> 
> That seems like a usable fix - if the terminal doesn't have a USB sound
> card things should work much as before. Thanks for your help in figuring
> it out.
> 

Great. :)

> I'm still puzzled as to why card 1 wasn't usable as the default when
> it's the only card.

Maybe some dummy device that popped up to the first
place? /proc/asound/cards will give you a list.

Rgds
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