For screen reader users with only usb sound available, this is a show stopper.
On Thu, 13 Sep 2018, Joe wrote: > Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 06:34:23 > From: Joe <j...@jretrading.com> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Sound in Stretch [SOLVED] > Resent-Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 10:34:40 +0000 (UTC) > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 09:12:33 +0100 > Joe <j...@jretrading.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 08:36:20 +0200 > > deloptes <delop...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Then I looked > > > at /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf file. I noticed the following at > > > end of file. > > > > > > # Keep snd-usb-audio from beeing loaded as first soundcard > > > options snd-usb-audio index=-2 > > I would guess that this is also a default somewhere else, maybe > hardcoded, because I don't have it but do have the problem. > > > > > > > I just caught the culprit. Basically these external USB sound > > > adapters are used as secondary audio device, the above setting > > > prohibits USB sound adapter being set as default device. In my case, > > > it is a primary audio device, so I set it?s index as 0 as shown > > > below. > > > > > > # Keep snd-usb-audio from beeing loaded as first soundcard > > > options snd-usb-audio index=0 > > > > > Well done, thank you for your time and effort. > > OK, nothing in /etc/modprobe.d (this was a clean minimal installation) > so I made a file, put in that line and rebooted. > > All OK now, speaker-test and alsamixer are working, I'll get around to > loading my sound player software when I have more time. Thank you again. > > I presume this is a minor bug, a USB card really should not be forced > not to be card 0 if there is no other candidate. > > --