Strange sound problem with Xine

[Daryn Hanright]

Hi

Have just moved from Fedora Core 3 to ubuntu (& therefore I guess Debian). Have
gotta say I am huguely impressed! Fedora was a bit too "experimental" and
"cutting edge" for me. Got tired of things breaking. Ubuntu was a breeze to
install - really like the experience so far. I loved using apt-get on Fedora, so
moving to the installation where that originated has been a joy!

Have got a couple of questions though. I've got all the universe, restricted and
multiverse options in my sources.list (also marillat). From those I have
installed xine & libdvdcss2 following instructions here (http://ubuntuguide.org/#xine-ui). Something strange happens though. If I launch xine from the gnome menu, I get no sound from the DVD. However if I launch xine from a command line I do get sound!?? I checked the properties on the launcher for xine & its the exact same binary I am launching on both. Any ideas whats going on there? Am not using sudo to launch xine from the command line.

This might be related to some sound issues I had after install. At first I
thought I didn't have sound. I've got an onboard Intel chip, as well as a
Soundblaster Live card. I assumed that ALSA etc would be using the SB Live, but
it seems to default card 0 to the Intel chip. After I took all the mutes off the
Intel using alsamixer I had sound. It looks like the SB Live is on card 1, and
am guessing that ubuntu has only loaded modules for the onboard intel card, and
not SB Live. How would I make the SB Live card the default? Looking at the
Devices loaded it looks like both sound cards where at least recognised. And
running 'aplay -l' I get...


**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], device 0: Intel ICH [Intel ICH5]
	Subdevices: 1/1
	Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], device 4: Intel ICH - IEC958 
[Intel ICH5 -IEC958]
	Subdevices: 1/1
	Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 1: Live [Sound Blaster Live!], device 0: emu10k1 [EMU10K1]
	Subdevices: 32/32
	Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
	Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
	etc etc ....

Is it a setting somewhere in ubuntu where I can choose what card takes priority?

cheers
Daryn

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