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Joe_Bishop (denis-cheremisov-gmail) wrote : Default device isn't used as default by several programs.

I have two soundcards:
1) ESI Juli@ (used as default, snd-ice1724, no microphone input)
2) HDA Intel (snd-hda-intel)
Juli is set as default through /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base
Everything is OK with mplayer, flash, gstreamer apps are also OK.
Some apps, like empathy, works well with gnome sound settings. I mean, they used ESI Juli@ for playback and HDA Intel for microphone input when voice chatting as I set them up through System->Preferences->Sound.
But some playback through build in HDA Intel - absolutely all games I've ever tried: Sauerbraten, Worsow, Wormux, X-Moto, etc. Ekiga doesn't work too, inspite of the fact I've set up alsa, then ESI for playback and HDA Intel for input. Absolutely no sound.

PS When I was installing Ubuntu 8.10, I didn't turn off integrated card in the bios, and it usually was the first device after reboot.
I've managed to reproduce similar behaviour with Ekiga at another computer: It has ASUS Xonar DX and HDA Intel. I switched off integrated sound card when installing and there were no such issues. But I can't use my Dr.Dac2 USB Audio device in Ekiga too, although everything is OK with the music playback through gstreamer apps.