How to configure a default soundcard

[Charles philip Chan]

kpfuser <kpfuser at yahoo.com.sg> writes:

> The need to configure a default sound card arose from the installation
> of an external USB sound card (Creative Sound Blaster Extigy) in a
> system that has an on-board sound card. Based on instructions in
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshooting
>
> the shell command cat /proc/asound/modules returned
>
> 0 snd_intel8x0
> 1 snd_usb_audio

Try this.

1. sudo nano /etc/asound.conf

2. Now put the following in it:

   pcm.!default {
       type hw
       card 1
   }  

3. Restart Alsa.

Charles

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