[PlanetCCRMA] snd card now not working. apparently slipped from Card 1 to Card 0.

[Brad Fuller]

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 14:37 -0800, Brad Fuller wrote:
>   
>> Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
>>     
>>>>> Looks like kudzu (the hardware discovery software) missed the midisport
>>>>> and automagically rewrote the soundcard related configuration files but
>>>>> missed something. 
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>> That's strange as the Midisport 8x8 LED is flashing slowly - which
>>>> indicates that the driver was loaded into it.
>>>>         
>>> I take it you have cold booted and the same thing happens, right?
>>>   
>>>       
>> Yes. Another thread - [linux-audio-user] fxload and Midisport firmware -
>> reveals some interesting info on this.
>>     
>>>   
>>>       
>>>>> See if you have a /etc/asound.conf file and what it contains now...
>>>>>   
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>> Hmmm, what does this mean?
>>>>
>>>> $ cat /etc/asound.conf
>>>> #Generated by system-config-soundcard, do not edit by hand
>>>> #SWCONF
>>>> #DEV 0
>>>> defaults.pcm.card 1
>>>> defaults.pcm.device 0
>>>> defaults.ctl.card 1
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> It looks like the default card is now card 1 device 0. But according to
>>> your previous post:
>>>
>>> # cat /proc/asound/cards
>>>   
>>>       
>>>>  0 [M66            ]: ICE1712 - M Audio Delta 66
>>>>                       M Audio Delta 66 at 0xece0, irq 20
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> ..there's only one card, so that is wrong. 
>>> Fedora is definitely confused about soundcards...
>>>
>>> Maybe run system-config-soundcard to see if it is smart enough to fix things?
>>>   
>>>       
>> I actually did that and it came up with the same config. I assume I
>> can't change this file as it will be overwritten?
>>     
>
> You can try changing it by hand, probably no harm will come of it. 
I set it by hand and it works.
> But
> that will not solve the midisport problem. I wonder what triggered that.
> Can you search /var/log/messages for lines that include usb or midisport
> in them? There may be clues there...
>   
nothing for midisport but for yesterday here's "snd-usb-audio":

Nov 14 15:53:21 localhost kernel: usbcore: registered new driver
snd-usb-audio
Nov 14 15:58:48 localhost kernel: usbcore: deregistering driver
snd-usb-audio
Nov 14 15:58:53 localhost kernel: usbcore: registered new driver
snd-usb-audio
Nov 14 18:50:57 localhost kernel: usbcore: deregistering driver
snd-usb-audio
Nov 14 18:53:19 localhost kernel: usbcore: registered new driver
snd-usb-audio
Nov 14 18:54:00 localhost kernel: usbcore: deregistering driver
snd-usb-audio
Nov 14 19:09:13 localhost kernel: usbcore: registered new driver
snd-usb-audio

I image it's something to do with fxload, since I now can't find it!

brad