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bugman-2.0 · Joined: 06 Jul 2012 Posts: 41

I have 2 sound cards, and it seems to be a HUGE problem. Every time I reboot I lose my settings and have to reconfigure. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. This was a big problem in Debian, but I thought Puppy was working. Turns out I was wrong. Any clues?

bugman-2.0 · Joined: 06 Jul 2012 Posts: 41

This last reboot I got the right card but set up wrong. Am wearing out the finger I use to type "alsamixer" . . .

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7017 Location: qld

Hello #v2.0 (welcome to the forum Laughing

from a sicko)

Go the the menu and use Multiple Sound Card Wizard. It should be persistent.

You will then need to tell retrovol (right click the volume icon in the tray) which card to use and reset master/pcm or whatever works for your setup.

I am using a USB card as the mobo sound is fried. Working here.

bugman-2.0 · Joined: 06 Jul 2012 Posts: 41

Hey micko v1-

The multi sound card hasn't been persistent with me. Not sure why, maybe because the onboard card works [though not with my digital speakers]. I wonder if the onboard card can be blacklisted?

This computer is such a piece of crap, I shouldn't be surprised at anything though, really...

Great job on slacko btw, the small issues are not going to kill me.

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7017 Location: qld

Can you disable it in BIOS? Some BIOS allow this, worth a try.

Then try blacklisting the module I guess, as long as the card you want doesn't use the same module!

OscarTalks · Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Posts: 324 Location: London, England

I mentioned about this some months ago. I have 3 desktop computers, each with 2 soundcards and it is a problem. Not sure if someone can suggest a way for Puppy to detect the devices at boot up and lock down the allocation of index numbers.

Multiple Sound Card Wizard does not solve this because the allocation of index numbers can remain random.

What I have to do is manually edit the file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and to do that you have to know the modules that will be in use by the 2 soundcards.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=76798

bugman-2.0 · Joined: 06 Jul 2012 Posts: 41

Okay, it may be working.

Edited alsa-base.conf as per Oscar's link, added card to blacklist, rebooted, sound!

Sort of. Sometimes mp3s play all fast and glitchy. But as long as I can use Audacity, I'll live without...

bugman-2.0 · Joined: 06 Jul 2012 Posts: 41

Another reboot, another sound working.

Mp3s still glitchy in mplayer. Pmusic and Aqualung do not play at all. And no sound in Flash [youtube].

Audacity works fine.

I'm gonna go learn to play the flute,

[edit] uninstalled Aqualung. Not sure if this mattered, but Pmusic now plays. Could've been something else though. Mplayer still crap. Flash working again.

???

bigpup · Posted: Sun 08 Jul 2012, 15:50 Post subject:

Did you ever try to disable one of the sound cards in bios?

bugman-2.0 · Joined: 06 Jul 2012 Posts: 41

OscarTalks · Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Posts: 324 Location: London, England

When you say that Flash gives no audio that suggests to me that things are still not set right. Flash is embedded in the browser and will only play though the soundcard which is set as default.

With most of the audio players you have options to switch devices by name (ie not necessarily the default), but I note that you said most of your players were silent also.

Normally the card which is index=0 will be the default card.

Multiple Sound Card Wizard will change this so that the card which is index=1 becomes the default BUT does not lock down which card will be allocated as which index number.

If you ran MSCW before and have now edited the alsa-base.conf file to force a certain card to always be index=0 you may need to run MSCW again to ensure that the index=0 card is the default.

You can launch MSCW and look at it to see the list of soundcards on the system. The index=0 card should be at the top of the list. Highlight it and click OK then reboot to set that as default.

After that if you open MSCW to look at the list of soundcards but don't want to change anything always remember to click "Cancel" (not "OK") to close it without running it (which might mess things up again).

bugman-2.0 · Joined: 06 Jul 2012 Posts: 41

Slow to respond. Sorry. In MSCW there are two cards, both = 0.
Flash not working, no longer care.

Have decided to ignore the outside world and it creations. Only need Audacity and mplayer to work; the inside world and its creations are enabled.

Sorry for my syntaxes and such. I'm feeling a bit ON today.