[PlanetCCRMA] 'default' sound card?

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 15:19 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
>    Does anyone happen to know the rule for how, in a 2 card system,
> the 'default' sound card is chosen?
> 
>    In the past it has, on my previous systems, always been card 0. On
> my new AMD64 system it's turning out to be card 1, the HDSP 9652,
> which is not what I want:
> 
> lightning ~ # cat /proc/asound/cards
> 0 [CK804          ]: NFORCE - NVidia CK804
>                      NVidia CK804 with ALC850 at 0xda103000, irq 185
> 1 [default        ]: H-DSP - Hammerfall DSP
>                      RME Hammerfall HDSP 9652 at 0xda000000, irq 209
> lightning ~ #
> 
> This makes Gnome unhappy as I do not set up OSS on the HDSP9652
> because of long existing problems and, as I say, on my other machines
> card 0 has always been default which made Gnome happy.

Look at what' in /etc/asound.conf, I think that defines which one is the
default. 

-- Fernando