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From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
To: Albert Cahalan <acahalan@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ALSA pisses me off
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:17:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48AD32AA.1080600@ladisch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <787b0d920808201939k6b6a4707n73ede33d96df9e74@mail.gmail.com>

Albert Cahalan wrote:
> I gather that somebody decided that USB audio should never be selected
> as the default.

Only when the order of sound cards has not been configured.

Put the following into /etc/modprobe.conf:

  options snd slots=snd-usb-audio,snd-virmidi

This should have been done by the sound card configuration utility of
your distribution.

> [...]
> The second is that, if a user adds USB audio, they probably want to
> use it! Plugging in a USB audio device should take over the audio,

It certainly should not this automatically in the kernel.  At best, this
is a decision to be made by userspace.


HTH
Clemens

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-08-21  9:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-21  2:39 ALSA pisses me off Albert Cahalan
2008-08-21  8:28 ` Stefan Richter
2008-08-21  8:29 ` Justin Mattock
2008-08-21  9:17 ` Clemens Ladisch [this message]
2008-08-22 10:03 ` Pavel Machek

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