[mythtv-users] ALSA No Longer Sees Sound Card

[bernhart2002 at hotmail.com]

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>
>A couple of things I had to do.>
>
>I had to rmmod the capture device before starting X so it would find the
correct
>device, I also had to change myth to using /dev/dsp1 (I don't understand
why
>/dev/dsp is not there), after that you can put the module for the capture
device
>back.
>
>It does appear that the newer alsa are not quite smart enough to figure out
that
>a capture device with only inputs should not be the default device, and I
was
>unable to figure out a way to actually tell alsa what to use as the default
>device, no matter what you do it does not appear to stay set, even once I
get it
>working correctly if the next time it finds the capture device, it messes
up the
>same way.
>
>I am using F8, but I had similar problems on F7 when I would start X up
with a
>usb camera (with a microphone) already there, it gets found first and used
>instead on the MB audio.
>
>                               Roger

I had the same problem with FC8, what I did to fix it was uninstall the
pulse audio package. It appears that the new pulse audio has troubles with
multi sound card systems.
After I uninstalled pulse audio it was then possible to configure which card
I want to use for my sound output
Regards
Eric