Comment 3 for bug 48377

I can confirm this bug. Computers with more than one sound card (in my case ESI Juli@ and SAA1734) get random sound device list order. This is extremely annoying. I had to come up with this to make sound on my tv-tuner to work:

sox -r 32000 -w -t ossdsp /dev/dsp`arecord -l | grep '^card [0-9]: SAA7134' | awk '$2 == "2:" {print "2"}'` -t ossdsp /dev/dsp`aplay -l | grep '^card [0-9]: Juli \[ESI Juli@\], device 0:' | awk '$2 == "2:" {print "2"}'`

because sound devices interchange between /dev/dsp and /dev/dsp2 randomly at reboot. Also, it affects the 'Default sound card' setting in sound preferences.