Bug#1142903: pnmixer: complains that no playable soundcard was found (and then segfaults)

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Control: severity -1 normal
Control: retitle -1 pnmixer: please allow to really select any ALSA playbac=
k device
Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/nicklan/pnmixer/issues/194

On Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:07:43 +0200 Francesco Poli (wintermute) wrote:

[...]
> I would like to select hw:Generic_1

Hello!
I found a way to work around this bug.

Since PNMixer seems to be only able to control the default ALSA device
and maybe HD Audio Generic, I thought I could explicitly set the
default ALSA device:

```
$ head -n 3 ~/.asoundrc
# set the default ALSA device
defaults.pcm.!card Generic_1
defaults.ctl.!card Generic_1
```

Having my sound card of choice set as default ALSA device, makes PNMixer
happy and everything works.

I would say that this bug is more a limitation, than an actual
misbehavior. But it's an annoying limitation, so it should be seen as a
bug anyway.
I am changing the bug report title and severity accordingly.

Also I found an upstream issue about this limitation.
I am hence setting the forwarded tag, as well.


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