Change default sound card..

darkreaper476 · 2012-11-25 08:59:00

Yes I've tried what the wiki has to offer.... I have an older via pci sound card. alsa sees it as ICEnsemble ICE1724. I use E17 as my DE and ALSA for sound... I need to know how to make my pci card default so I can use it......

again.. yes I tried https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ad … sound_card it didnt work.

10PinkPanther · 2012-11-25 09:16:21

Hi!

When I type "alsamixer" in my terminal I press F6 to set a default sound card.Is it in your case same?

darkreaper476 · 2012-11-25 17:47:32

That changes which sound card your changing the volume on. Unless I'm missing something there's no way to select it as default. It never sticks for me after I change it.

whoops · 2012-11-25 20:29:56

Changing it in asound.conf should work, But I found the most reliable way is to simply just remove the sound card you don't want to use - tried other ways, but something always went wrong (because some applications just mess it up no matter how well or in how many places you configure it as default).

# lspci | grep Audio
00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40)
# find /sys -wholename *00:14.2*remove
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.2/remove
# echo 1 > /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.2/remove

( I guess /etc/tmp-files/remove-soundcard.conf would be the right place to put the "echo 1 >..." if it works, now that rc.local isn't any more )

Last edited by whoops (2012-11-25 20:33:48)

Trilby · 2012-11-25 20:50:38

I've changed the default sound output on many systems by just changing (creating) the ~/.asoundrc.

darkreaper476 · 2012-11-26 00:08:57

Well this is embarrassing. These solutions all seem awesome but changing up the /etc/modprob.d/alsa-base.conf probably did work from the beginning but I didn't have any CODECS INSTALLED!!! oops lol I thought maybe youtube would play without them..

thank you for your help. I'll keep em around incase of future issues.

Last edited by darkreaper476 (2012-11-26 21:09:18)

darkreaper476 · 2012-11-26 21:22:54

whoops wrote:

Changing it in asound.conf should work, But I found the most reliable way is to simply just remove the sound card you don't want to use - tried other ways, but something always went wrong (because some applications just mess it up no matter how well or in how many places you configure it as default).
# lspci | grep Audio
00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40)
# find /sys -wholename *00:14.2*remove
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.2/remove
# echo 1 > /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.2/remove

( I guess /etc/tmp-files/remove-soundcard.conf would be the right place to put the "echo 1 >..." if it works, now that rc.local isn't any more )

Well I thought it worked... after a reboot no more sound, the onboard sound card took precedence again, so I tried this method because it seems legit. It didnt do anything. the onboard is still there and still taking precedence.

I dont fully understand what to put in the asound.conf, any clarification would be great.

thanks!

10PinkPanther · 2012-11-26 21:30:38

Do you have pulseaudio installed with alsa?It says in wiki under alsa section that it could couse problems in some situations and it should be better removed.

darkreaper476 · 2012-11-26 23:15:16

Actually, No I don't, I installed it to see if it would work and nope... Still nothing. It actually made my mixer show stereo rather than surround. Removing pulse now.

Thanks

darkreaper476 · 2012-11-27 00:13:41

So, some how setting

defaults.pcm.card 0
defaults.pcm.device 0
defaults.ctl.card 0

in ~/.asound worked, for now... 2 reboots and I still have sound... Even though "0" is the onboard card according to "aplay -l". Like I said I dont fully understand how this workaround works. lol

darkreaper476 · 2012-12-01 02:45:12

So its completely random... Sometimes my external card takes control and I have sound and sometime the onboard takes control and I don't have sound.. Any insite to a permanent fix would be awesome.

thanks

Trilby · 2012-12-01 03:04:37

There are two solutions in the relevant wiki pages. One here though I prefer the suggestion on the actual alsa wiki which describes how to set the default pcm by name rather than by index number.

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Change default sound card..

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