Re: Re (5): names for sound devices

2012-10-05 Thread lee
peasth...@shaw.ca writes: > From: lee >> Alsa sucks. It's ridiculously difficult and more or less impossible to >> configure and to figure out why things don't work. > > Compared to Shorewall for example, which is superbly documented > and works as the documents describe. On the other hand, al

Re (5): names for sound devices

2012-10-04 Thread peasthope
From: lee Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2012 03:48:40 +0200 > Still readers might want to know that they can use numbers instead of > names. At least some information about the possibility needs to be > there to make the note understandable. OK, when there is time, will work on it. > Alsa sucks. It's

Re: Re (4): names for sound devices

2012-10-03 Thread lee
peasth...@shaw.ca writes: > From: lee > Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 20:59:05 +0200 >> If you don't do that, what the default >> device (i. e. card 0) is seems to depend on in which order the >> corresponding modules are loaded during booting. This order is not >> fixed. > > OK, yes; that is why I say

Re (4): names for sound devices

2012-10-03 Thread peasthope
From: lee Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 20:59:05 +0200 > If you don't do that, what the default > device (i. e. card 0) is seems to depend on in which order the > corresponding modules are loaded during booting. This order is not > fixed. OK, yes; that is why I say that everything up to "Note by ms

Re: Re (3): names for sound devices

2012-10-03 Thread lee
peasth...@shaw.ca writes: > Incidentally, to my understanding, everything up to "Note by mschiff" > in FAQ026 is obsolete and misleading. I am inclined to delete it so > that the instructions from mschiff take precedence. Any objections? Uhm, I'm changing what the default device is by editing

Re (3): names for sound devices

2012-10-03 Thread peasthope
* From: * Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 18:02:14 + (UTC) > http://alsa.opensrc.org/FAQ026 Studied that and set the default device accordingly before my original query. FAQ026 can be summarized thus. if you want to assign names to devices such that the names can change arbitrarily

Re: Re (2): names for sound devices

2012-09-03 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 03 Sep 2012 10:11:37 -0700, peasthope wrote: > From: Camaleon > Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 14:00:21 + (UTC) >> You mean the name enclosed in brackes, the card identifier? > > Yes, the names "SI7012", "default" and "default_1". > >> I don't know ... your final goal ... > > Aiming to have

Re (2): names for sound devices

2012-09-03 Thread peasthope
From: Camaleon Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 14:00:21 + (UTC) > You mean the name enclosed in brackes, the card identifier? Yes, the names "SI7012", "default" and "default_1". > I don't know ... your final goal ... Aiming to have sound work. =8~) [Old boring background story. Two desktop

Re: names for sound devices

2012-09-03 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 02 Sep 2012 11:32:45 -0700, peasthope wrote: > According to http://wiki.debian.org/ALSA . peter@dalton:~$ cat > /proc/asound/cards > 0 [SI7012 ]: ICH - SiS SI7012 > SiS SI7012 with ALC655 at irq 18 > 1 [default]: USB-Audio - C-Media USB Audio Device

names for sound devices

2012-09-02 Thread peasthope
According to http://wiki.debian.org/ALSA . peter@dalton:~$ cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [SI7012 ]: ICH - SiS SI7012 SiS SI7012 with ALC655 at irq 18 1 [default]: USB-Audio - C-Media USB Audio Device C-Media USB Audio Deviceat usb-:00