Bug#590426: pulseaudio: soundcards recognised but not working in squeeze - dual soundcard config

[Felipe Sateler]

Hola,

On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 6:28 AM, Álvaro Romero Jiménez
<alvadoraemon at yahoo.es> wrote:
> El 07/04/14 22:12, Felipe Sateler escribió:
>> Hi Alvaro,
>>
>>> Iv'e got two soundcards in my system; one of them is an hdmi "card" included in
>>> the ATI 4650 PCIe card, and the other is a SoundBlaster Audigy2 card.
>>>
>>> My first "issue" is that the ATI "card" is detected first at every startup, but
>>> the working one - the one with speakers pluged - is the Audigy.
>> Does this problem persist? You reported this bug against a very old
>> version of pulseaudio, so this might have been fixed in the meantime.
>>
>> If you still see this problem please reply so we can debug this,
>> otherwise I'd like to close this bug.
>>
> Hello, Felipe.
>
> The problem persists. Every time I boot my PC the "soundcard" of my ATI
> 4650 is always put the first of the soundcard list.
>
> I tried to disable the intel audio module - which seems to be the one
> loaded by the kernel for the card -, but I didn't suceed.
>
> With the KDE and GNOME control panels I can switch the order or disable
> teh ATI card, but ATI HDMI is always first.

OK, so we can start debugging this. I need you to provide the
following information:

* Did you try setting the audigy card as fallback using pavucontrol
(it is a button right next to the "mute" and "lock channels" buttons?
This is likely to fix your problem, see [1].

* What pulseaudio version are you using? If not 5.0, can you upgrade
to that and test?

* Please log the output of pulseaudio -vvvv (you need to kill
pulseaudio first, so do "pulseaudio --kill ; pulseaudio -vvvv")

* Do you have something plugged into the HDMI port?

[1] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/DefaultDevice/

>
> Thanks for your job :-).

No worries, thanks for reporting issues :)

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler