[pulseaudio-discuss] pulseaudio hell after upgrade

[Udo van den Heuvel]

Hello,

I am trying to get audio to work again after a Fedora 8 -> 9 upgrade.
Thanks to the wonderfull setup pulseaudio is not really easy to manage
although I want just one simple thing.

We have:

# cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [NVidia         ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
                      HDA NVidia at 0xf4100000 irq 23
 1 [M2496          ]: ICE1712 - M Audio Delta DiO 2496
                      M Audio Delta DiO 2496 at 0xa000, irq 18
 2 [HDMI           ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI HDMI
                      HDA ATI HDMI at 0xf3010000 irq 16

# lspci -nn
00:07.0 Audio device [0403]: nVidia Corporation MCP65 High Definition
Audio [10de:044a] (rev a1)
01:08.0 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: VIA Technologies Inc.
ICE1712 [Envy24] PCI Multi-Channel I/O Controller [1412:1712] (rev 02)
02:00.1 Audio device [0403]: ATI Technologies Inc RV630/M76 audio device
[Radeon HD 2600 Series] [1002:aa08]

I just want the on-board HDA-Intel (card 0) to be used as default by
pulse-audio.
Pulseaudio has nothing to do with the M2496 card nor with the HDMI card.

Both the Nvida and HDMI card use HDA-intel as driver.
In the past the Nvidia card worked OK, but now the HDMI card is
detected/recognised so pulseaudio thinks it must use the HDMI card
and/or the M2496 card. Not just the Nvidia card.
Due to the very intuitive PCI-ID numbers and the easy controls to tell
pulse-audio what card to use and what card NOT to use I am seeking help
here.

So in a nutshell: pulseaudio works, just not with the right card.
How do I explain pulseaudio to bother with just alsa card 0?

Kind regards,
Udo