[pulseaudio-discuss] 2 sound devices, one mostly won't play, but works

[Patrick Shirkey]

On 03/29/2011 12:52 PM, Doug wrote:
> Hello, group--I'm a newbie here.  Running PCLOS with KDE 4.6.1.  I 
> recently decided that I wanted to be able to try out SKYPE, and I
> don't want to move cables around, so, since I had an old sound card, I 
> plugged it in. Up til then, sound was on MOBO and worked
> fine.  Now sound only comes out p/i card, except once for a minute, 
> until I messed with the GUI PAVU, and now it's back to the
> p/i card again, only.  I have tried sound output from an internet 
> radio station and from an mp3 file on a CD.  It was the CD that briefly
> produced output from the MOBO sound device.  Here is what the system 
> says about the cards:
> (Trident is p/i; SiS is on MOBO)
>
> [doug@(none) ~]$ cat /proc/asound/cards
>  0 [TRID4DWAVENX   ]: TRID4DWAVENX - Trident TRID4DWAVENX
>                       Trident TRID4DWAVENX PCI Audio at 0xdc00, irq 17
>  1 [SI7012         ]: ICH - SiS SI7012
>                       SiS SI7012 with ALC655 at irq 18
>
> I went as far as I could with the instructions in "The Perfect 
> Setup"--I'm in group 2, and I edited /etc/group
> to eliminate everything and then added "pulse."  At this point I got a 
> little confused, coming to "Third Party
> Applications" and ALSA Applications:  my asound.conf is not in /etc 
> but in /usr/share/xbmc/system.  So far I
> have not messed with that.  After that, I got even more perplexed: 
> what do I do (if anything) with the virtual
> ALSA device pulse?  (I find /etc/pulse and 
> /etc/sound/profiles/pulse.)  What do I do with % aplay and % amixer?
> And in which file?
>
> Further down, "If you want to make PulseAudio driver the default, use 
> something like this in the ALSA configuration
> files:"  Well, I don't know if I want to make the PulseAudio driver 
> the default; I don't know what that would do
> for me or to me.  And if I did, just what are the "ALSA configuration 
> files"?  Then if I should do this, where would
> I put the load-module module-alsa-sink device-hw:0?
>
> One other thing:  To the far right of each "port" is a green ball with 
> a white checkmark.  It cannot be unchecked or
> modified, so I don't know what it's supposed to do. The plug-in card 
> shows up as the lower port, even tho it appears
> first on the list above, and has a lower IRQ.
>
> Sorry to be such a dunce, but I'm afraid I have exhausted my 
> resources. All help and advice gratefully appreciated.
>

You can change the order of the cards in the asoundrc or set the default 
card in the sound preferences (pavuctl) to be the onboard device.



Cheers.


> --doug
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Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd.