altering the order of sound cards

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 01:05:32AM +0100, 'Forum Post wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman Wrote: 
> > On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:45:41AM -0500, Ian wrote:
> 
> > 
> 
> > > I have 2 sound cards in my machine (1 PCI, 1 onboard)...how can I
> > alter the order they are used
> 
> > > such as hw:0,0 goes to hw:1,0 and vice versa... There is no
> > alsaconfig so how can i make this type
> 
> > > of alteration?
> 
> > 
> 
> > The absolute simplest way to change this is to disable the onboard card
> > in
> 
> > the BIOS (or remove the PCI card, depending on which one you want to
> > use).
> 
> > 
> 
> > https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1351
> 
> Not if you want both cards, it isn't.

Fortunately, that message is a year old, and in modern Ubuntu, you can use
System->Preferences->Sound to select your default sound device.

-- 
 - mdz