Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 153064
USB Sound card seems to change address when unplugged/plugged
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:18:23 EST
I recently bought a Sound Blaster Audigy2 NX USB sound card for my laptop. Noticed that if I unplug it, then plug it back in it seems it is getting assigned a new address. So it means that when I plugin it in the first time it ends up as hw:2,0 but if I plug it out and plug it back in it becomes hw:3,0 afaict. I talked to David Zeuthen at HAL is getting USB soundcard support in FC4 (sorta) so I don't know if the problem will be solved through HAL and friends or if it can/should be addressed within the confines of hotplug.
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