[SOLVED] default sound card changed

Question

Hello all,
Been struggling with my arch64 and XFCE over the past couple of days.  my arch32 gnome 2.x screamed, it was great.
Anyway, when I first installed Arch this week, I had sound(alsamixer reported SB Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350] as default).  I then installed XFCE, updated, installed vlc, etc, and I had sound(alsamixer reported SB Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350] as default.   I've been mucking around trying to get Arch to automount my DVD, and not sure what happened, but when I rebooted just now, I have no sound. 
Now when I go into alsamixer, my default sound device is marked as ATI R6xx HDMI, with one S/PDIF connection MM.
What could have happened that made Arch/XFCE change my default sound card?  I've check the forums, and didn't find anything.  Then again, I've been living in forums for the past 4 days trying to solve various issues, I could have missed something, or gotten confused.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
-nixIT
EDIT:  RTFM'ed  (read the wiki, which was the only place I didn't look)
Last edited by nixIT (2011-05-19 23:31:04)

Answer 1

Hi, Masutu
Pulseaudio is in my daemon array:
DAEMONS=(@syslog-ng !network crond dbus @alsa @pulseaudio)
But what you've said about some program calling pulse and crashing things makes sense. How could I "correctly configure" pulse? What do you suggest?
My /etc/asound.conf is here:
# Use PulseAudio by default
pcm.!default {
type pulse
fallback "sysdefault"
hint {
show on
description "Default ALSA Output (currently PulseAudio Sound Server)"
ctl.!default {
type pulse
fallback "sysdefault"
# vim:set ft=alsaconf:
It seems pretty the same what is written in some sites about pulse.
In a past time (with other computer), I just removed pulse completely. But now there is a warning about dependencies: gnome-settings-daemon and gnome-control-center. And I don't know how removing these Gnome packages will affect the window manager.