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dunce345

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From: India

Registered: 2018-08-15

Posts: 7

[SOLVED] Issues with ALSA detecting the wrong default card.

My sound modules are as follows, with my HDMI output being the first one and the sound card for speakers/headphones being second.

 cat /proc/asound/modules
 0 snd_hda_intel
 1 snd_hda_intel 

I can't select my default card using alsamixer, after going through the alsa wiki, I was able to edit the commands desirably.

defaults.ctl.card 1;
defaults.pcm.card 1;  

The problem is that now my audio doesn't mute when I have my headphone plugged in even though "Auto Mute Mode" is enabled in the alsamixer.

Any help on how to resolve this issue? Thanks in advance.

Last edited by dunce345 (2018-08-30 14:53:35)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,435

Re: [SOLVED] Issues with ALSA detecting the wrong default card.

Wether auto-mute is triggered should be irrelevant to the default pcm config. FWIW can you post

amxer -c1
sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/* #While playing something back

Last edited by V1del (2018-08-30 14:39:12)

dunce345

Member

From: India

Registered: 2018-08-15

Posts: 7

Re: [SOLVED] Issues with ALSA detecting the wrong default card.

Sorry for the post, I was able to resolve the issue by removing the lines from /etc/asound.conf and editing the /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf, and running

 sudo alsamxier 

I was able to rectify the issue.