> Greetings Mark:
> As others have said, it sounds like the cards are not always getting
> recognized in the same order, so sometimes your sound card is card 0 and
> sometimes it is card 1. That used to happen to me once in a while, but
> it hasn't lately.
> In any event, you can verify that this is in fact what is happening by
> looking at the contents of your /proc/asound/cards file. It will list
> all of the cards that the kernel recognizes. The card statement in your
> .asound file is telling the system which of those two cards (0 or 1) to
> use as the default.
> Another poster suggested modifications to the udev rules. That is
> certainly worth a try, but I'm not sure that udev is the process
> responsible for ordering those cards. I could certainly be wrong about
> that, but a quick look through the rules didn't show me anything that
> looked promising.
> Back when my system was changing the order of my cards, I planned to
> write a script and run it from my .bashrc file. I was going to have the
> script look at the contents of the /proc/asound/cards file and
> dynamically generate my .asoundrc file based on the order of the cards
> listed in /proc/asound/cards. I never got around to it, and my system
> hasn't changed the order of initialization in months, so I never got
> around to doing it. It would not be a difficult script to write, but if
> it's not your thing, post the contents of your /proc/asound/cards file
> and I'll post you back a script.
> - -Scott
Thanks Scott. I certainly appreciate your offer. Here's the
/proc/asound/cards file:
0 [Headset ]: USB-Audio - USB Headset
GENERIC USB Headset at USB-0000:00:04.2-1, full speed
1 [CS46xx ]: CS46xx - Sound Fusion CS46xx
Sound Fusion CS46xx at 0xf4100000/0xf000000, irq 11
Mark
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