On Saturday 13 October 2007, Luke Yelavich wrote: > A better solution is to set the sound card you want as the default, and > yes, there is a way of doing this without having to force a card to a > perticular address. [...] > asoundconf set-default-card M66
OK, I've finally had a chance to see if this worked, and it didn't. The last two times I rebooted, I had to switch QJackCtl by hand to the other card. I just verified that my asoundrc stuff looks right: # ALSA library configuration file managed by asoundconf(1). # # MANUAL CHANGES TO THIS FILE WILL BE OVERWRITTEN! # # Manual changes to the ALSA library configuration should be implemented # by editing the ~/.asoundrc file, not by editing this file. !defaults.pcm.card Live defaults.ctl.card Live defaults.pcm.device 0 [...] But this doesn't seem to have any effect on anything. QJackCtl still sees my ice1712 as card 0 this time around (it was card 2 last time) so I've been using my emu10k1 for playback all this time without realizing it. I have the two cards synced through SPDIF, and all the audio ultimately comes out of the ice1712. It doesn't seem to matter which card is which for day to day playing around (probably says something about how my ears aren't very sensitive), but the difference becomes critical at recording time. That's the real bother here. I wanted to play with recording, and I noticed the only signals in Envy24Control were coming from SPDIF IN. Then I expanded the alsa_pcm entry in QJackCtl, and lo, I only had two inputs and two outputs. Must be using the wrong card. AGAIN. Unless there is a more sure recipe than this asoundconf thing (like being able to force the hw:x order at every boot) I guess I have no remedy other than to try to remember to look at QJackCtl each time and see which hw is which. (In addition to these two, I have a USB MIDI dongle that takes a card slot, even though it doesn't produce audio. That one always seems to come up card 1, and it's just 0 and 2 that keep flipping randomly.) Or maybe I'm just stupid, and somebody needs to take a deep breath and start at page 1. Or better yet, suggest a way to hack this stupid thing so that I always know which is card 0, and which is card 2. (And hey, on the bright side, now that I have shut everything down, changed QJackCtl, and started it all back up, I have got my old mAudio AudioBuddy working backwards as a headphone amp monitoring the analog outs on my Audiophile 2496, and so I finally have the ability to monitor something other than my Sound Canvas on headphones. This is something I haven't been able to do since my old amp blew up; the one that had a handy headphone jack on it. So now I can do live audio recordings over top of other live audio recordings like hasn't been possible in years. Joy!) -- D. Michael McIntyre -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
