How to change default Soundcard under linux

First i find out the name of the card:
cat /proc/asound/cards

gets me Audigy2.

Then i add this lines to my /etc/asound.conf


pcm.!default {
  type hw
  card Audigy2
}
  ctl.!default {
  type hw
  card Audigy2
}

~ by princ3 on October 20, 2006.

Posted in linux

just found this on the net:

stratos@homepc:~$ sudo asoundconf list
Names of available sound cards:
NVidia
U0x46d0x8d9
stratos@homepc:~$ sudo asoundconf set-default-card NVidia
stratos@homepc:~$

stratos said this on January 16, 2007 at 3:33 pm | Reply
I have the folowgin problem with this instruction.
I find out that the file: /etc/asound.conf does not exist. How do i get to change this if there is no asound.conf file?

Thanks for the answer.

Cristobal said this on April 16, 2008 at 7:38 pm | Reply
@Cristobal

Just create it.

princ3 said this on April 23, 2008 at 8:35 am | Reply
uhu, thanks for the “just create it” comment :)

anyway, what are all this lines doing? i understand type and card and default but ctl, and pcm and .! ???

eviltoaster said this on February 28, 2010 at 9:31 am | Reply
Thanks so much!

Torstein Krause Johansen said this on September 28, 2010 at 8:03 am | Reply
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It worked very well. Thank you.

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