Bug #7245

Find out the best way to select the default sound card

Added by mercedes508 2014-05-14 02:17:08 . Updated 2019-07-24 16:14:14 .

Status:
Confirmed
Priority:
Low
Assignee:
emmapeel
Category:
Hardware support
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Description

Some Tails users have been experiencing issues with their sound card, as the right one is not automatically selected. We could investigate how Tails could handle that in a smooth way (e.g not too much configuration for on user-side).

Reference: “Alternative method”: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Advanced_Linux_Sound_Architecture#Alternative_method


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Related issues

Related to Tails - Feature #6873: No sound because of multiple sound card Resolved 2014-03-07
Blocks Tails - Bug #7246: Persistence preset: default sound card Confirmed 2014-05-14

History

#1 Updated by intrigeri 2014-05-14 02:42:30

  • blocks Bug #7246: Persistence preset: default sound card added

#2 Updated by intrigeri 2014-05-14 02:42:51

  • Category set to Persistence
  • Status changed from New to Confirmed

#3 Updated by intrigeri 2014-05-14 02:54:03

  • Category changed from Persistence to Hardware support

#4 Updated by intrigeri 2014-05-14 13:12:59

  • Description updated

See comment 4 on Bug #7246 for additional info and question on this topic.

#5 Updated by sajolida 2014-06-22 09:02:34

  • related to Feature #6873: No sound because of multiple sound card added

#6 Updated by sajolida 2019-07-24 16:14:14

  • Assignee set to emmapeel

This ticket hasn’t been updated in 5 years so maybe things are better now.

Are multiple sound card issues still reported?

I browsed a couple of WhisperBack reports and I saw several reports with multiple sound cards. For example:

======= content of /proc/asound/cards =======
 0 [PCH            ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH
                      HDA Intel PCH at 0xf7100000 irq 3
 1 [NVidia         ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
                      HDA NVidia at 0xf7080000 irq 5

I know that @numbat is on duty this week but I guessed he wouldn’t have don’t enough help desk to know these kinds of things. You would :)