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vilmos

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Registered: 2014-12-29

Posts: 1

xfce4-mixer with multiple cards (same name)

Hello,

I have a multi-seat (three heads) setup at home (debian testing).

Audiowise there is an onboard card (1), a tv-card (4), and two hdmi cards on the graphics cards (2,3).

Here is /proc/asound/cards:

0 [MID            ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel MID
                      HDA Intel MID at 0xf0924000 irq 50
1 [PCH            ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH
                      HDA Intel PCH at 0xf0920000 irq 45
2 [Generic        ]: HDA-Intel - HD-Audio Generic
                      HD-Audio Generic at 0xf0040000 irq 46
3 [Generic_1      ]: HDA-Intel - HD-Audio Generic
                      HD-Audio Generic at 0xd0040000 irq 47
4 [HVR950Q        ]: USB-Audio - HVR-950Q
                      Hauppauge HVR-950Q at usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.3.4, high speed

The problem is that cards 2 and 3 have the same name (HDA-Intel - HD-Audio Generic), and xfce refers to the cards by their name (HDAudioGenericAlsamixer). I cannot force xfce4-mixer to refer to the Generic and Generic_1 names, so the two instances in the different heads always default to card 2.

Is there a way to distinguish between the two cards?

Also, how names like HDAudioGenericAlsamixer are constructed?

Thanks, Vilmos