Comment 26 for bug 8050

The workaround I've been suggesting to people using Warty is to hard-wire the
ALSA driver load order in /etc/modules, for example:

$ echo "snd-sb16" | sudo tee -a /etc/modules
snd-sb16
$ echo "snd-bt87x" | sudo tee -a /etc/modules
snd-bt87x

The sb16 card becomes ALSA's card0; the bt87x card becomes card1. It certainly
is less than optimal, but "it works."

Now when the fun (or forehead-bashing) begins is at the moment a user wishes to
use ALSA in conjunction with OSS/Free (e.g., snd-emu10k1 and bttv). Just
recently I suggested a similar workaround to the above for that particular Warty
user - that is, loading bttv after snd-pcm-oss.

The proposal to enumerate a list of "preferred" devices sounds promising, but I
agree it can become troublesome quickly depending on the user's preferences. The
vast majority of [new] ALSA users seem to have cards driven by snd-emu10k1,
snd-intel8x0, or snd-via82xx. Perhaps we should prefer one of those for card0 in
the presence of multiple cards of which only one card is driven by one of those
three drivers?