Feisty Multiple Sound Card Issue
There is an issue that
has seemed to
spring up with Feisty. If you have multiple sound cards then
this
may help you. My desktop system has two sound cards:
1. VIA
8237 Onboard Sound
2.
Soundblaster Audigy 2 PCI
For some reason
Feisty wanted to use the onboard sound card even
though the Gnome Volume Control app said that the Audigy 2 was
selected. I was perplexed. Even though I disabled
the
onboard sound in the motherboard's BIOS Ubuntu still wanted to use the
VIA. After a bit of Googling I was able to get the
proper
information from the Ubuntu
Feisty Guide.
This guide is a wealth of information that I suggest that
everybody read. Here is what I had to do. Open up a
terminal and type the following commands:
asoundconf list
This will list
the available sound cards. Here is a list of the sound cards
that are in my PC.
Names
of available sound cards:
V8237
Audigy2
I then typed this
command, you will need to substitute the "Audigy2" for the name of your
sound card.
asoundconf set-default-card Audigy2
This sets the
Audigy2 sound card as default. You can confirm this by typing
alsamixer in the terminal and
looking at the sound card displayed in the upper left corner.
I hope this
helped.