Wrong sound device selected at start up.[Solved]

[Detonate]

I'm not sure if this is the correct place to post this, so if a moderator wishes to move it, go ahead. My problem is, I have a Nvidia Geforce 550Ti which has it's own HDMI output which includes sound. I am not using the sound, but instead using my on board analog device for sound. But when I start my computer, it always defaults to the Nvidia device, and I have to go to the sound settings and change it to get sound. I'm running Katya and Gnome. How can I make this default to the analog device?

[mads]

Hi. This is how I fixed this issue.
You need to replace 'snd_intel8x0' and 'snd_hda_intel' according to the output of 'cat /proc/asound/modules' command. Your analog device should have 'index=0', the other one 'index=1'

gksudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

Add the following lines at the end of the file:
# Fixes the order of my sound cards and prevents them from switching
options snd_intel8x0 index=0
options snd_hda_intel index=1

Save and exit. Reboot to make changes take effect

[Detonate]

Thanks, that seems to have worked.

[mads]

Thanks, that seems to have worked.

No problem. Glad that it worked.

[dagon]

Moved here by moderator

[After Eight]

Thank You very much!

Had the same problem on T410 with nVidia on Mint 13 / Cinnamon 1.8.8+Maya. Your solution worked perfectly!

Very best regards,

ae