On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 20:09 +0100, Christoph Eckert wrote: > > It's currently not possible to specify one specific ALSA > > device in a pipeline such that the same pipeline is guaranteed to > > work across machine reboots. The problem is that ALSA card numbers > > are generated on each system startup. The result depends on the > > random order of which kernel module gets loaded first. When > > hotplugging USB audio devices, the card number changes may even > > happen without machine reboots. > > what about indexing the cards in modules.conf? Works great for me even > when hotplugging USB devices (and I use 5 of them ;-)
And normal users should never have to touch that file. In Gnome, just do System->Preferences->Sound and select the "Default sound card". Lee
