How to set your default sound card .

[Member ex_Koo]

Set default sound card...

Open alsa mixer with sudo press F6 or S select your card then type sudo alsactl store.

sudo alsamixer

sudo alsactl store

and OR

Setting the default sound device

Find your desired card with:

   cat /proc/asound/cards

You will need to be root for this and then create or edit your /etc/asound.conf with following:

   defaults.pcm.card 1
   defaults.ctl.card 1

Replace "1" with number of your card determined above. 

With antiX the asound.conf file was already in etc just needed to remove the comments and change the card number.

#defaults.pcm.card 1
#defaults.ctl.card 1

to

defaults.pcm.card 2
defaults.ctl.card 2

cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [PCH            ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH
                      HDA Intel PCH at 0xf7130000 irq 28
 1 [NVidia         ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
                      HDA NVidia at 0xf7080000 irq 17
 2 [US2x2          ]: USB-Audio - US-2x2
                      TEAC Corporation US-2x2 at usb-0000:00:14.0-10, high speed
 3 [Device         ]: USB-Audio - USB PnP Audio Device
                      C-Media Electronics Inc. USB PnP Audio Device at usb-0000:00:14.0-13, full spee

I found on my system anyway that if I open alsamixer as user card 0 was the default. Then I opened alsamixer as root and card 1 was the default. I have no idea. And don’t really care fixed now 🙂

[Member techilliterate]

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AntiX comes with a program specifically for setting the default ALSA card anyway so you shouldn’t have needed to mess around with the config.

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techilliterate wrote:

AntiX comes with a program specifically for setting the default ALSA card anyway so you shouldn’t have needed to mess around with the config.

For me with my usb dac this only partly works , mpd & ncmpcpp sound works fine but waterfox sound will not work without the .config edits.

antiX 17.4.1 & i3 bloatware is were I will say..not a gui desktop user.

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