[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#887768: alsamixer F6 freezes my mouse

[Susan Cragin]

(1) F6 does not do anything at all. It does not switch to another soundcard, or give me a list of them, even when I have a USB soundcard attached and there are clearly other working sound cards. 
(2) My mouse stops working. It freezes where it is, and I have to reboot to correct the problem. 

--another problem, possibly unrelated. 
I just added /etc/asound.conf to include this
defaults.pcm.card 1
defaults.pct.device 0
so that my arecord would default to an external microphone:
$ arecord -l
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC236 Analog [ALC236 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Headset [Logitech USB Headset], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
But alsamixer still opens to my internal sound system. 
When I open Audacity, it defaults to the USB mic, so I think the asound.conf entry is correct. 
Susan :)