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Sound Card Issues - Doesn't Pick Up Right Card Right Away

Asked by Timothy Klaver

I am running Kubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn. I was having sound issues with what appeared to me to be KMix, so I wrote to KDE and someone helped me load the Alsa Base and configure my sound cards the way that they should appear.
options snd-snd_emu10k1 index=-0
options snd-snd_intel8x0 index=-1
However, this didn't seem to solve the problem. I have to restart my computer 4 or 5 times, apparently a problem that Edgy had, and sometimes more, before it picks up the right sound card. When I had tried Linspire and Fedora prior to having tried Kubuntu, they never had this problem. Why can't it pick up the correct sound card every time from start up?
Anyone have any suggestions or some wisdom in regard to this? I recently switched from Windows to Linux and I desire the crossover to be smooth, not to mention I'd like to learn more about Linux as a whole. If it is a bug flaw, I hope there is an available patch to correct it. Thank you for any help I can receive in regard to this.

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Bryan Haskins (bryan-h) said : 		#1

Try asoundconf list pick what you desire and asoundconf set-default-card
cardnamehere that's a great general fixall for sound issues.
Timothy Klaver wrote:
> New question #12488 on Ubuntu:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/12488
>
> I am running Kubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn. I was having sound issues with what appeared to me to be KMix, so I wrote to KDE and someone helped me load the Alsa Base and configure my sound cards the way that they should appear.
> options snd-snd_emu10k1 index=-0
> options snd-snd_intel8x0 index=-1
> However, this didn't seem to solve the problem. I have to restart my computer 4 or 5 times, apparently a problem that Edgy had, and sometimes more, before it picks up the right sound card. When I had tried Linspire and Fedora prior to having tried Kubuntu, they never had this problem. Why can't it pick up the correct sound card every time from start up?
> Anyone have any suggestions or some wisdom in regard to this? I recently switched from Windows to Linux and I desire the crossover to be smooth, not to mention I'd like to learn more about Linux as a whole. If it is a bug flaw, I hope there is an available patch to correct it. Thank you for any help I can receive in regard to this.
>
>

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Timothy Klaver (timothyklaver) said : 		#2

How exactly would I go about doing this? Remember, I am new to Linux and know nothing whatsoever about the Terminal and the various codes for achieving stuff. If you can give me step-by-step instructions for this, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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Jay Roplekar (jay-roplekar) said : 		#3

Tim,

I myself have similar problems with my sound cards, have not resolved them for a few weeks
and I consider myself an advanced linux user :-)

To answer your question:

1. Go to system menu -> konsole

2. Type
   jay@jay-desktop:~$ asoundconf list

   you will see list of you cards

3. Then choosing the card you want first type
   jay@jay-desktop:~$ asoundconf set-default-card "myCARD"

The quesion is are you consistently seeing same list at #1 after each reboot, if you are, this solution will get it done for you. In my case it is the PCI probe that drops a card..

Also you might want to remove the options stuff.

Hope this helps.

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Timothy Klaver (timothyklaver) said : 		#4

So far as I can tell to this moment, this seems to have fixed my problem. I performed the same actions that I have done previously, rebooting and restarting the system, and the sound seems to continue to be there. If there is further problems, I'll re-open this question. Thank you for your help. :o)