[PLUG] Somewhat random failures

[Eric Wilhelm]

# from Denis Heidtmann
# on Saturday 19 July 2008 18:05:

>Well, I would not characterize the problem as the "missing sound
> card".  lspci returns identical results, 
>...
>Also, lshw shows Audigy to be #0, regardless of the sound state:
>...
>But when the system comes up with the on-board sound, amixer thinks
> the VIA is #0:
>
>amixer -c 0 info

Hmm.  Can you use the pci card in this state if you tell e.g. aplay or 
xmms which card to use?

If so, it seems like one is just getting found first.  Perhaps you can 
use your bios settings to disable the onboard sound or somehow 
configure udev or alsa to address the card in some way besides "first 
one found".

>I cannot reliably cause the failure, but it occurs about 50% of the 
>time.

Every other boot or a random 50%?  Useless homework exercise:  If you 
flip a coin to decide where to plug in the speakers at each boot, what 
is the probability that you'll get the right sound card? ;-)

--Eric
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