[arch-general] soundcard order is not maintained after recent updates

[Partha Chowdhury]

On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 07:15:27PM +0300, Roman Kyrylych wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 16:51, <kira.laucas at gmail.com> wrote:
> > i have two soundcards. one is creative soundblaster live and the other
> > is onboard nvidia soundcard. the kernel modules are snd-emu10k1x and
> > snd-hda-intel respectively. Before the recent updates i used to put
> > snd-emu10k1x before snd-hda-intel in /etc/rc.conf in the MODULES array to force the soundblaster card to be
> > soundcard 0. But after the most recent updates this setting does not
> > work. After going through archwiki and googling i found that either i
> > can put "options snd_emu10k1x index=0" in /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf
> > or i can create a custom asoundrc file in my home directory which will
> > serve my purpose. so my question is that is the new udev does not load
> > modules according to /etc/rc.conf ?
> 
> It was a change in rc.sysinit.
> See http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12706
> 


Thank you very much for the information. I spent several hours
desperately to find the cause /solution .