Curt <cu...@free.fr> writes: > On 2017-08-10, Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.med...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> This makes no sense BTW. Unmuted everything? You're *recording*, so what >>> you want to do in alsamixer is to select your external usb audio card >>> (F6), display its capture device(s) (F5), and toggle on the input >>> channel of your choice (space bar). >>> >>> But I assume you have arrived at this crucial result in one way or another. >> >> >> I did. Besides, the USB card does not even work with headphones: when >> headphones are plugged into it, no sound is heard from them. > > Try making the USB audio dongle the first sound card (0). > > I'm not certain how to do that. > > Perhaps comment out the following line in '/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf': > > # Keep snd-usb-audio from beeing <sic> loaded as first soundcard > options snd-usb-audio index=-2
No '/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf' on my PC... /etc/modprobe.d is empty. There's /usr/share/alsa.conf, but it doesn't contain any occurrence of `usb'. Thanks, Rodolfo
