how to fix the order of sound card detected

[H.S.]

Hello,

On Acer T320 running Edgy Eft, I added an Maudio audiophile 2496 sound 
card (used for recording live music). Before I continue, just a few 
comments: when I first inserted the new card in a PCI slot, it was not 
detected properly. I then booted into Windows and the problem persisted. 
We took out the card to see if it had any jumpers we had missed, but 
that wasn't the case. Then, after the reboot the new card was detected, 
but the onboard card stopped working (no sound from the font headphone 
jacks). During all these debugging steps, it so happened that the card 
was reseated a couple of times. And then it suddenly started to work, 
the onboard was also working and all sounds were working wonderfully. We 
assume that the PCI card may have had dust and other impurities in it 
due long period of staying vacant and the card made proper contact only 
after a few reseatings. We were pulling our hair before it all started 
to work.

In any case, the new card was then detected automatically and works 
wonderfully. However, there is this small problem. After a reboot, it is 
either detected as Card 0 or as Card 1, almost randomly. How do I fix 
this? Say I want it to be always detected as Card 0.

Currently, here is the situations:
$> aplay -l
**** 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
card 1: M2496 [M Audio Audiophile 24/96], device 0: ICE1712 multi 
[ICE1712 multi]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Thanks,
->HS