[kde-linux] How do I set the default sound card?

[Ronny Standtke]

Hi again,

> i don't think the first problem is KDE, may be you can get more help in
> http://www.alsa-project.org
> Anyway probably there is some confusion somewere in your system. 

There was absolutely no confusion in my system. After some discussion on the 
alsa-user list that eventually switched over to the alsa-devel list a 
workaround for the current shortcomings was found. All I actually had to do 
was to add the following two lines to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base:
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options snd-intel8x0 index=0
options snd-usb-audio index=-2,-2
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It took me two months and four different forums/mailing lists to find out... I 
still think that it is the job of the desktop environment to search the 
configured soundcard at startup instead of letting poor users change system 
configuration files as root to hardcode the soundcard order. What do you 
think of the proposals I made here:
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-linux&m=116803699028792&w=2

Is there any developer here who can give some feedback? Are those proposals 
realistic? (I would help designing, testing and documenting this feature with 
the help of a KDE developer.)

Greetings

Ronny Standtke