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Frosted

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Registered: 2014-04-18

Posts: 20

Ever-changing Soundcard Address

I think I'm accurately describing what's going on. Ever since I installed arch many months ago, I've had this issue. It takes two reboots to get the sound working. Reboot one: no sound; reboot two: sound. If you look in the pic, The system is showing duplicates of the same device, each with a different name. I can make any the default and I'll have audio. But wha'ts strange is I've never been able to get the audio working by changing anything in the sound settings; it's just the reboot that fixes it. My guess is that on every other boot that device is accessible or not accessible. And on every boot I have a popup asking me if I want kde to forget about (a list of) unused devices. In that list are iterations of the same D1 audio device, along with the nvidia digital sound that I never use. This must have something to do with hardware detection. And that raises another question: why a full hardware detection on every boot?

The three iterations of the same device are Xonar D1 Multichannel, Multichannel, and Xonar D1.

Last edited by Frosted (2014-08-16 07:36:31)

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emeres

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Registered: 2013-10-08

Posts: 1,570

Re: Ever-changing Soundcard Address

Use modprobe to reorder your sound cards as described on our alsa wiki, but drop the vid and pid parameters* for now, that part needs updating. In short: check what modules your sound cards are using, then use modprobe options with index parameter to reorder them. You have at least one snd-hda-intel module, should you have multiple cards using that module, or multiple cards using the same module to be exact, reorder them using their physical addresses as reference, ergo the sound card that is listed first on the bus, should be referenced first by index or slot parameter.

You may want to delete your current KDE/Phonon sound configuration.

Edit: * unless you use snd-usb-audio, which does accept those.

Last edited by emeres (2014-08-16 13:13:34)