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Date:      Sat, 3 Feb 2018 20:44:30 -0000 (UTC)
From:      Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   How to set default pcm device?
Message-ID:  <slrnp7c7pe.13p.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>

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After boot, my /dev/sndstat looks like this:

Installed devices:
pcm0: <ATI R6xx (HDMI)> (play)
pcm1: <Realtek ALC280 (Analog 2.0+HP/2.0)> (play/rec) default
pcm2: <Realtek ALC280 (Rear Analog)> (play/rec)
pcm3: <USB audio> (play)
No devices installed from userspace.

However, I would like the USB audio device, pcm3, to be the default
sound unit.  How do I set this persistently across reboots?

The traditional solution was to set hw.snd.default_unit=3 in
/boot/loader.conf.  That worked for FreeBSD 10.x, but with 11.x the
USB devices are attached very late and the boot loader setting
(which I still have) is effectively ignored.  Loading the uaudio
module early with snd_uaudio_load=YES doesn't change this.  Setting
hw.snd.default_unit in /etc/sysctl.conf is unlikely to work either;
certainly it's a race.

Do I need to define a devd(8) action for when uaudio attaches or
is there a better way?

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de



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