Its been a while since i fixed that problem but im pretty sure what i did was go into the BIOS and disable onboard sound. Then it will always find my externale card and speakers and all.

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 12:43 AM, wired00 <rob@washeretoo.com> wrote:
this is wierd...

so i just rebooted and only plugged in my usb dac after the system had
started... i plugged the usb dac in loaded amarok, and it worked
perfectly :/

as expected it displays as device "1" from sndstat and aplay -l

strange... i don't know what causes it to sometimes not work, but it
seems exactly like the OP's problem. I'll post back details from sndstat
aplay -l etc if it stops working again

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external sound card (USB) is not detected most of the time
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