No way to select default/primary audio device, if more than one is installed
Bug #8107 reported by
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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alsa-lib (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Martin Pitt |
Bug Description
there is no way to select the default sound card if more than one soundcard is
installed. i have two cards installed, one onboard on the
motherboard(
the onboard card is, by default loaded first and thus the default output,
the only way i know of to change the order is to put snd-ice1712 in /etc/modules,
which is not intuitive, nor acceptable as an interface.
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I think that the solution to this is for applications to take notice
of what sound card it is they are actually talking to -- i.e., for them
to identify cards by their properties (such as the card i.d.) rather
than by the card index which, especially in a hotplug environment, may
be different on different occasions (just as a network card can turn up
as eth0 or eth1 on different occasions).
What we need to discuss is how best to enhance sound applications.
Should alsa-lib be enhanced somehow?