I just completed an upgrade to Gutsy while continuing to use my KDE session to do stuff. It was ugly, but I suffered worse on a more frequent basis back when I was running Sid, so I'm more or less impressed.
One casualty of this process was that my soundcard order got jumbled somehow, even though I'm still running the kernel from Feisty at the moment, and nothing has changed in my QJackCtl config either. Turned out I had to run asoundconf set-default-card Live to set things right, and now it seems like everything is in order. I'm not sure why that was required, but it does get me thinking. It's not that unusual for someone to have more than one soundcard these days. This asoundconf trick is very helpful, but I only learned about it myself in fairly recent memory. I've been an ALSA user since 0.5.x and so on, but I still don't know what an .asoundrc is really for, and don't want to have to learn if I can help it. So I finally come to the blasted point already. What if Ubuntu Studio detected the presence of multiple soundcards, and asked users what to do about putting them in a persistant order across boot cycles. This interactive script or whatever could then handle the ugly asoundconf business without anyone having to be aware of how it worked. What I especially have in mind is that life has been a lot easier since I put my old SB Live! back in, and set it up as the default card for all the stupid OSS apps, like the nonfree Flash plugin. Even having a crappy builtin soundcard in this role might still be helpful, since it seems getting the dmix plugin to work on an ice1712 is a bit of a fantasy for all but a lucky few. So this script should be slanted toward encouraging people to wind up with that kind of configuration. Cheap junk first up, more expensive stuff last, with JACK pre-configured to aim for the expensive stuff out of the box. It seems it might be helpful for the guy who has lots of soundcards because he has lots of inputs too. You want to know where what is, so you can record it without a lot of futzing around to find where the signal is. -- D. Michael McIntyre -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
