It's all a bit clearer now. The reason my report was so long and unclear was because I had got bogged down and confused trying to edit a text file. In fact all I needed to do was to add a couple of lines of the form "options snd-emu10k1 index=0" to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base to get everything working properly.
The user-friendly way to fix this would be to have a utility in the Gnome System-->Adminstration submenu to allows you to determine which sound card is which. -- Sound card configuration is a complete mess https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/77911 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
