[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#586053: Bug#586053: alsa-base: avoiding usb audio devices as card 0 makes no sense on machines without other audio

[Elimar Riesebieter]

severity 586053 wishlist
merge 586053 585488
thanks

* Daniel Kahn Gillmor [100615 20:35 -0400]
> Package: alsa-base
> Version: 1.0.23+dfsg-1
> Severity: normal

> 
> I'm writing this report from an NSLU2, which has no built-in audio
> (but does have USB ports).  After a recent upgrade to alsa-base
> 1.0.23+dfsg-1, alsamixer could not find my sound card.
> 
> This appears to be because of the following line in
> /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf:
> 
> ----------------------
> # Keep snd-usb-audio from beeing loaded as first soundcard
> options snd-usb-audio index=-2
> ----------------------
> 
> This is problematic for a few reasons, but mainly because i use
> this NSLU2 as input to my stereo.  My mixer and mpd were both
> confused about which audio device to use, since there was no
> device 0.

Please follow
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=585488
especially
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=585488#19

Elimar

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