Alsa with multiple cards

hi,
after the recent -Syu, alsa doesn't behave like it should
first i noticed the following message during init:
Unknown hardware: "Audigy" "TriTech TR28602" "AC97a:54524123" "0x1102" "0x0053"
Hardware is initialized using a guess method
and the exact same message for hda-intel
I started messing with alsaconf and the message on init disappeared
Now the default card gets to be the hda-intel one
I even used the modprobe index options to change that. After i added those aplay -l didn't display my Audigy card even tho the modules were loaded
what am i missing?

so wth is happening
i STILL didn't solve this properly
one time at startup there's no mixer elems for the -c0 card and then on restart there's no mixer elems for -c1
it even happens that both work
but it's all RANDOM!
the cards obviously have their index properly set since when they appear under aplay -l the intel ALWAYS appears as card 1 and audigy as card 0
here's the latest modprobe options i'm using [/etc/modprobe.d/50-sound.conf]:
alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1
alias snd-card-1 snd-hda-intel
alias sound-slot-1 snd-hda-intel
options snd-emu10k1 index=0
options snd-hda-intel index=1
Last edited by _saiko (2009-07-24 09:54:34)

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