[mythtv-users] Installing an external USB sound device on Mythbuntu 10.10 [ADDENDUM]

[Dave M G]

MythTV Users,

I learned another important detail, so I thought I'd share it.

Sometimes when I booted the computer, I was seeing an error that said:

cannot find the slot for index 0

When that happened, I had no sound. It happened randomly.

After a little digging on the 'net, I discovered the problem was most
likely with how I had set up my alsa-base.conf file.

Long story short, I edited the alsa-base.conf file again:

$ sudo gedit alsa-base.conf

... and I noticed that there was a section that said:

# Prevent abnormal drivers from grabbing index 0

... and the card I wanted to load was listed in there. That seemed like
an obvious contradiction, so I commented out the lines that applied to
my preferred sound card, like so:

# options snd-usb-audio index=-2

(There were actually two of them in different places)

Rebooted, and now my sound seems more stable.

Hope that info is helpful to someone.

-- 
Dave M G