two sound cards. USB and Onboard

[Luke Yelavich]

On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 01:35:20AM EST, Warren J. Beckett wrote:
> My problem is if I boot the latop without the USB headset, the onboard
> device is assigned Hardware Device 0, and /dev/dsp. When I plug the USB
> device in it is assigned HW:1 and /dev/dsp1. BUT if I  boot it with it
> plugged in the USB device gets /dev/dsp ( and hw:0 ), and the onboard
> controller is assigned /dev/dsp2
> 
> I have tried to alter this behaviour via the /etc/modutils and the
> snd_count option but nothing seems to help. 
> 
> What I am after is force the onboard device to be hw:0 ( dsp ) and let
> the USB device ( if at all present ) to be anything else.

The easiest way to solve this is to add snd-intel8x0 to your 
/etc/modules file, which will cause that module to be loaded before the 
hotplug system can pick up the USB headset.

Hope this helps.

Luke