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From: Pavel Hofman <pavel.hofman@ivitera.com>
Subject: Re: Changing default card using its name
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 09:54:48 +0100
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Pavel Hofman napsal(a):
> Hi,
> 
> Please excuse my ignorance but I have not been able to figure out this 
> simple task. Nowadays most PCs have multiple soundcards (onboard plus 
> HDMI, often another PCI card). Order of the cards is not stable. How do 
> I define in /etc/asound.conf another default card using its name and 
> keep the PCMs defined by its corresponding alsa card/pcm config files?
> 
> In my case aplay -L:
> 
> defaults.ctl.card "CMI8768"
> 
> which IMO would have been the simplest solution.
> 

Well, adding the exclamation mark

!defaults.pcm.card "CMI8768"

does not work either. It may look trivial, but changing the default card
 while preserving the fine-tuned device definitions the for each card in
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/* and /usr/share/alsa/cards/* has been an
unattainable peak for me so far. Neither have I been able to google it
anywhere. IMO there must be a simple way to do this key change.

Thanks a lot for suggestion and hints.

Pavel.