Funny things....with sound

[Bill Crawford]

On 12/09/2008, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Ironically sound works on one of my two machines running rawhide.  On the
> one that does not work, I check alsamixer and all the tabs are at 0, I
> change them as they were before, but still cannot get any sound.  Updates to
> alsa showed 1.0.18rc? and alsamixer still shows 1.0.17?  Strange?

Sounds like you have an extra audio device (usb?) and that it's got
modprobed first. You need something in modprobe.conf (or a file in
/etc/modprobe.d) but I can't remember the exact incantation. Luckily
someone posted exactly what you need to one of the Fedora lists in the
last week ... something like:

alias snd-slot-0 $driver
options $driver index=0
alias snd-slot-1 snd-usb-audio
options snd-usb-audio index=1

This only works when there's only one usb device, though, by the looks of it :-/

I suspect what's really needed is more control over the order they're probed.