Re: [Alsa-user] Sound card selection problem

[August K. <fus...@gm...>]

On 2012-07-27 20:40, Anders Genell wrote:
> Hej August!
>
> If I'm not mistaken choosing the sound card in alsamixer doesn't set it
> as default card but only allows you to set various levels of the card
> for the applications that already do use it.

That was my impression too. However, I got the instruction to do so in 
another forum (something which didn't work).

> In order for it to be chosen you either need to set the software to
> choose that particular card, like you did in the second example for
> aplay, or you need to replace the card as the default device in
> /etc/asound.conf (system wide) or ~/.asoundrc (current user only). If
> the don't exist just go ahead and create them as needed.

OK, so there is no way to switch to a different sound card on the fly 
with ALSA?

> The code for
> setting N2 as default looks something like
>
>
> pcm.!default {
> 	type hw
> 	card "N2"
> }
>
> ctl.!default {
> 	type hw
> 	card "N2"
> }

I added the file ~/.asoundrc with the content above and logged 
out/logged in but the internal sound card is still used. Is there a log 
which ALSA writes to?

Thanks/tack

August