Re: sound card ordering
On 8/19/2019 4:55 PM, Keith Barrett wrote:
>
>
> On 18/08/2019 21:08, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>> Keith Barrett, le dim. 18 août 2019 20:30:50 +0100, a ecrit:
>>> On 18/08/2019 18:12, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>>>> Keith Barrett, le sam. 17 août 2019 13:41:14 +0100, a ecrit:
>>>>> There are two sound cards in the system but only one was detected
>>>>> when I
>>>>> installed buster.
>>>>>
>>>>> When the system starts, the card ordering is not reliable so on
>>>>> occasions
>>>>> the non working asus card is card 0 hence producing no speech output.
>>>>
>>>> I'm surprised: what ALSA_CARD do you have in /etc/default/espeakup?
>>>
>>> Interesting, I have not modified /etc/default/espeakup but it does
>>> not seem
>>> to specify a card:
>>>
>>> ALSA_CARD=""
>>
>> Oh? were you installing with speakup enabled during installation?
>
> Yes I was so I am not sure why a default card was not written to
> /etc/default/espeakup unless it was because the installer only detected
> one of the cards?
>
>>
>>>>> Is this known and how can I force the onboard card to be always
>>>>> card 0?
>>>>
>>>> Normally the installer uses named identifiers instead of numbered
>>>> identifiers: in /proc/asounc/cards you can find e.g.
>>> Here is /proc/asound/cards
>>>
>>> 0 [MID ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel MID
>>> HDA Intel MID at 0xfbff8000 irq 31
>>> 1 [DGX ]: CMI8786 - Xonar DGX
>>> C-Media Oxygen HD Audio at 0xce00, irq 19
>>> I am not sure that this order is retained when it boots in the
>>> non-working
>>> state.
>>
>> That's where specifying either MID or DGX instead of 0/1 allows to avoid
>> relying on the ordering.
> OK, thank you, so do I just need to specify in /etc/default/espeakup or
> should it be somewhere else?
>
The file '/etc/default/espeakup' is a safe bet.
--
John Doe
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